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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] Published by the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade
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]
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.
Brooks (or Brook, Brookes) was a British slave ship launched at Liverpool in 1781. She became infamous after prints of her were published in 1788. Between 1782 and 1804, she made 11 voyages from Liverpool in the triangular slave trade in enslaved people (for the Brooks, England, to Africa, to the Caribbean, and back to England).
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 ...
On other slave ships enslaved Africans sunk ships, killed the crew, and set fire to ships with explosives. Slave traders and white crewmembers prepared and prevented possible rebellions by loading women, men, and children separately inside slave ships because enslaved children used loose pieces of wood, tools, and any objects they found and ...
She made one voyage as a slave ship in between May 1803 and late 1804, when she was captured. Manuela, built as clipper ship Sunny South, captured by HMS Brisk in Mozambique Channel with over 800 slaves aboard. Drawing of Marie Séraphique showing the slave deck and number of captives. Marie Séraphique, French vessel sailing from Nantes