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Meermin was a 480-ton square rigged ship of the Dutch hoeker-type, with three masts, which was built in 1759 in the Dutch port of Amsterdam for the VOC's African trade. [ 3 ] [ nb 2 ] From December 1765 she was working the coastline of Madagascar , under Captain Gerrit Muller and a crew of 56, taking Malagasy men, women and children to be ...
Meermin (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmeːrmɪn] ⓘ) was an 18th-century Dutch cargo ship of the hoeker [] type, one of many built and owned by the Dutch East India Company.She was laid down in 1759 and fitted out as a slave ship before her maiden voyage in 1761, and her career was cut short by a mutiny of her cargo of Malagasy people.
Antelope (1802 slave ship) was a Spanish slave ship captured near Florida in 1820 with 283 captives aboard, leading to The Antelope case. Ariel Brig mentioned in Bernard Raux slave trade papers, 1828-1836, Harvard University Library.
Pages in category "Dutch slave ships" ... Meermin This page was last edited on 1 December 2024, at 13:07 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
A Royal African Company ship that carried more African slaves to the Americas than any other institution in the history of the Atlantic slave trade, was discovered buried underneath the sea by a ...
Margaret Brown's documentary 'Descendant' forcefully surfaces history for the Alabama community whose ancestors survived the slave ship the Clotilda.
Map of Cape Town in 1750. By 1754, the population of the settlement on the Cape had reached 5,510 Europeans and 6,729 slaves. But by 1780, France and Great Britain went to war against each other. The Netherlands entered the war on the French side, and thus a small garrison of French troops were sent to the Cape to protect it against the British ...
A museum that tells the history of the Clotilda — the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavement — opened Saturday, exactly 163 years after the vessel arrived ...