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t. e. The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The outfitted European slave ships of the slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
Between 1517 and 1867, about 12.5 million Africans began the Middle Passage across the Atlantic, enduring cruel treatment, disease, and paralyzing fear aboard slave ships. Of those, about 10.7 million survived, with about 40 percent of them going to work on sugarcane plantations in Brazil.
Arab slave-trading caravan transporting African slaves across the Sahara, 19th-century engraving. Zanzibar was once East Africa's main slave-trading port, during the Indian Ocean slave trade and under Omani Arabs in the 19th century, as many as 50,000 slaves were passing through the city each year.
Mutiny and Murder on Bristol’s Long-haul Ships, 1720–70; Nicholas Rogers, York University, Toronto; Book: Maritime Bristol in the Slave-Trade Era; Online publication: 08 May 2024; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781805431787.006
These countries were involved both through the slave trade itself and through ownership of overseas plantations. Regarding Germany or German-speaking territories, it seems that German players were not involved in any of this. Thanks to a growing movement in Germany in recent years, which wants to expose the historically grown and still present ...
Middle Passage, the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World. It was one leg of the triangular trade route that took goods (such as knives, guns, ammunition, cotton cloth, tools, and brass dishes) from Europe to Africa, Africans to work as slaves in the Americas and West Indies, and items, mostly ...
John Brown (born May 9, 1800, Torrington, Connecticut, U.S.—died December 2, 1859, Charles Town, Virginia [now in West Virginia]) was a militant American abolitionist whose raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia ), in 1859 made him a martyr to the antislavery cause and was instrumental in heightening section...
