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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.
In the 1780s, British-built ships typically carried 1.75 slaves per ton of the ship's capacity; on the Zong, the ratio was 4.0 per ton. [23] A British slave ship of the period would carry around 193 slaves and it was extremely unusual for a ship of Zong 's relatively small size to carry so many. [24]
Engraving by Isaac Cruikshank showing Captain John Kimber on the deck of the Recovery, with the girl he was alleged to have whipped to death. John Kimber was an English sea captain and slave trader who was tried for murder in 1792, after the abolitionist William Wilberforce accused him of torturing to death an enslaved teenaged girl on the deck of his ship.
Behrendt, in his study of captains in the British slave trade between 1785 and 1807, focused on captains from Liverpool and Bristol. Duncan, therefore, did not enter the study. Still, Behrendt found that although 214 captains died, amounting to 27% of all captains in the trade, only three, or about 1% of the deaths, were due to slave uprisings ...
William Gregson (12 January 1721 – 1800) was an English slave trader and politician. He was responsible for at least 152 slave voyages, and his slave ships are recorded as having carried 58,201 Africans, of whom 9,148 died. Gregson was the co-owner of a ship called the Zong, whose crew perpetrated the Zong massacre.
She had left Liverpool with 20 crew members and she suffered no crew deaths on her voyage. [7] 5th slave voyage (1794–1795): Captain Thomas Harold acquired a letter of marque on 3 January 1794. [2] He sailed from Liverpool on 29 January. Martha left Africa on 18 February 1795 and arrived at Barbados on 19 March. She sailed from Barbados on 1 ...
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]
On 1 January 1738 the ship was caught in a storm at the mouth of the Maroni in Surinam. It capsized slowly, which enabled the captain, Joachim Outjes, to form a plan of action. The captain and crew all managed to escape, along with 14 (in some accounts 16) of the slaves who had been taken up on deck in order to help them. [2] [3]