The Henrietta Marie was a London-based slave ship that made two voyages — one in 1697 and 1698 – and it then wrecked during its second voyage, according to Malcom.The ship likely carried somewhere between 200-240 people – but many of them were destined to die, according to Malcom.“It was a given during the Middle Passage that some of those people would die because conditions on the ship were so horrible,” he says. “They were crowded together in unsanitary conditions and if one person was sick, that illness got spread.” - Dr. Malcom

Dr. Corey Malcom, Director of Archaeology at the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum, speaks to Savage Studios about the "Illicit Slave Trade."The "Illicit Slave Trade" was what took place after countries such as the US, Britain, and Spain outlawed the Slave Trade in the early 1800s. Despite the Slave Trade being abolished, ships, defiant of those abolished laws, continued to operate well in to the mid and late 1800s. Dr. Malcom gives us a brief history of this "illicit" period and how Key West, a small island in the Florida Keys, played a role. 

Jessica Martin and Nicole Pareso are the co-founders of Hotmess, an all-women’s motorcycle race team based in Savannah, Georgia.In a male dominated sport, the tandem have had to overcome stares, intimidation and doubters to chase their dreams of competing and winning on and off the track.