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The Slave Trade Act 1788 (Dolben's Act) was the first British legislation passed to regulate the shipping of enslaved people. The Act limited the number of enslaved people that British slave ships could transport without penalty, the cap being based on the ships' tons burthen. At a burthen of 386 tons, the limit for Sarah was 524 captives.
According to the Bible, Hagar was the Egyptian slave of Sarai, Abram's wife (whose names later became Sarah and Abraham). Sarai had been barren for a long time and sought a way to fulfill God's promise that Abram would be father of many nations, especially since they had grown old, so she offered Hagar to Abram to be his concubine.
On her fourth voyage Sarah had captured two French slave ships at Loanga. Sarah (1803 ship) was launched at Liverpool. She made a short voyage as a privateer during which she captured a valuable prize. She then made two voyages as a slave ship. A French naval squadron captured her early in her third slaving voyage. Tecora, Portuguese slave ship ...
The British captured her c.1798. She made five voyages as a slave ship before a Spanish privateer captured her in 1805. On her fourth voyage Sarah had captured two French slave ships at Loanga. Sarah (1800 ship) was launched at Hartlepool. Between 1807 and 1813 Sarah made two voyages as a whaler in the British southern whale fishery. As she was ...
Sarah was launched in Spain in 1791, presumably under another name. The British captured her c.1798. The British captured her c.1798. She made five voyages as a Liverpool-based slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people before a Spanish privateer captured her in 1805 on her sixth voyage.
Pages in category "Liverpool slave ships" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 236 total. ... Sarah (1798 ship) Sarah (1803 ship)
Slave ships were large cargo ships specially built or converted from the 17th to the 19th century for transporting slaves. Such ships were also known as " Guineamen " because the trade involved human trafficking to and from the Guinea coast in West Africa.
Tribune was one of three brigs used as slave ships that were owned by the American slave-trading firm Franklin & Armfield. Tribune was 161 tons and was built by the shipbuilder Hezekiah Childs in Connecticut in approximately 1831. [1] Tribune was initially used as a packet-style coastwise transport between Alexandria, Virginia and New Orleans ...