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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. [2] Atlantic slave trade.
1 de may. de 2017 · Between 1500 and 1866, slave traders forced 12.5 million Africans aboard transatlantic slave vessels. Before 1820, four enslaved Africans crossed the Atlantic for every European, making...
25 de dic. de 2021 · By Michael Levenson. Dec. 25, 2021. In 2019, a team of researchers confirmed that a wooden wreck resting off the muddy banks of the Mobile River in Alabama was the Clotilda, the last known ship...
21 de dic. de 2021 · When the 160-year-old wreckage of the Clotilda, America’s last known slave ship, was positively identified in the murky waters of the Mobile River in 2019, that was enough for Joycelyn Davis.
31 de ago. de 2018 · After Charles I of Spain signed an edict allowing slave ships to travel directly from Africa to the Americas, human cargo on transatlantic voyages spiked nearly tenfold.
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23 de ene. de 2024 · For over four centuries, thousands of European slave ships sailed along the coast of West Africa, with the main trading points centred on the coastal regions of Saint-Louis, Gorée, Rufisque, Portudal, Joal, Albreda and Rivières du Sud.
A slave ship is a sailing vessel that carries people from one geographic location to another for the express purpose of delivering them to be used for forced labor. Human beings joined other cargo aboard these ships—sugar, spices, animal hides, raw materials to build with, for example.
