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circa 1835: Slaves aboard a slave ship being shackled before being put in the hold. Illustration by Swain (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images) Author: Rischgitz: Source: Hulton Archive: Credit/Provider: Getty Images: Headline: Slaves In Transit: Short title: 97h/03/vict/0407/84; Date and time of data generation: 1 January 1835: Width: 3,439 px ...
A plan of the British slave ship Brookes, showing how 454 slaves were accommodated on board after the Slave Trade Act 1788.This same ship had reportedly carried as many as 609 slaves and was 267 tons burden, making 2.3 slaves per ton. [1]
The hijacked ship was twice interdicted by other vessels and captives taken, but upon arriving in New York, 14 former captives escaped. One, William Bowser, was recaptured, tried, and hanged. The other 13 seem to have achieved their freedom. [1] The slaves aboard the Decatur had been shipped by Baltimore's infamous Austin Woolfolk.
The schooner Clotilda (often misspelled Clotilde) was the last known U.S. slave ship to bring captives from Africa to the United States, arriving at Mobile Bay, in autumn 1859 [1] or on July 9, 1860, [2] [3] with 110 African men, women, and children. [4]
Traders knew that many of the Africans would die on the voyage and would therefore pack as many people as possible on to their ships—in total there were 609 enslaved men, women and children on board this ship. The conditions would have been appalling. Each person occupied a tiny space in the hold.
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 ...
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The slave ship Le Saphir, 1741 Diagram of the Brooks (1781), a four-deck large slave ship. Thomas Clarkson: The cries of Africa to the inhabitants of Europe The slave-ship Veloz, illustrated in 1830. It held over 550 slaves. [1] This is a list of slave ships.