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Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database is a database hosted at Rice University that aims to present all documentary material pertaining to the transatlantic slave trade. It is a sister project to African Origins .
The slave sales that Becher completed from 1731 to 1740 took place mainly in Jamaica. [1] According to Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, overall, Michael Becher trafficked 6,205 humans from Africa to points in the Caribbean and the American mainland during his slave trading career; 16.3% would die in transit. [3]
It involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage. Although the European slave trade with Africa began in the 15th century, trade with the Americas did not begin until the 16th century, and lasted till the 19th century.
For the last sixteen years of the transatlantic slave trade, Spain was the only transatlantic slave-trading empire. [158] Following the British Slave Trade Act 1807 and U.S. bans on the African slave trade that same year, it declined, but the period thereafter still accounted for 28.5% of the total volume of the Atlantic slave trade.
Between 1778 and 1807 she made 18 complete voyages as a slave ship. During this period she also suffered one major maritime incident and captured two ships. After the end of Britain's involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Molly became a merchantman trading with the West Indies, Africa, Brazil, Nova Scotia, and Africa again. She was ...
Although the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade database has no data on the number of captives that Sir William Douglas carried on her two voyages, she does appear, as ship and brig, on a list of vessels that brought captives to the United States during the period 1790–1810.
The UK "can't change our history", Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has told the BBC when asked about paying reparations to countries impacted by the transatlantic slave trade.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database, a portal to data concerning the history of the triangular trade of transatlantic slave trade voyages. Report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice