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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.
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database estimates that the Atlantic slave trade took around 12.8 million people between 1450 and 1900. The slave trade across the Sahara and Red Sea from the Sahara, the Horn of Africa, and East Africa, has been estimated at 6.2 million people between 600 and 1600.
abolitionism, (c. 1783–1888), in western Europe and the Americas, the movement chiefly responsible for creating the emotional climate necessary for ending the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery.
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
So many bodies of dead or dying Africans were jettisoned into the ocean that sharks regularly followed the slave ships on their westward journey. The Middle Passage supplied the New World with its major workforce and brought enormous profits to international slave traders.
Now, his own fierce autobiography has re-emerged. “The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots,” a denunciation of slavery by a formerly enslaved man named John S. Jacobs, was ...
Slave Voyages documents the history of the transatlantic slave trade and forced migration of millions of people from Africa to the Americas between 1514 and 1866. The site is geared toward scholars, educators, and students and is made up of three main databases.
