slavery – My Waters Family

Thomas Waters Sr. & Maidstone – Freeing Slaves

January 13, 2022Information Pieces

For three years, Lieutenant Thomas Waters Sr. worked aboard H.M.S. Maidstone, 42 guns, bearing Commodore Bullins Broad Pendant, against the Slaver’s Coast of Guinea, West Africa. From January 7, 1824…

Cape Coast Castle (1700s)

May 22, 2023Photographs

Cape Coast Castle, where Thomas visited, was a prison on the African Gold Coast for captured Africans who were headed for slavery. This photo shows it after having been rebuilt…

Sketch of the Slave Hold Design for the Slave Ship Brookes.

May 22, 2023Source Documents

This image was produced to illustrate how enslaved Africans destined for the Americas were crammed into the hold of the slave ship Brookes. It shows 454 people, the maximum allowed…