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In 1804, 30 British slave ships were lost. Venus was one of eight lost on the coast. [11] War, not maritime hazards nor slave resistance, was the greatest cause of vessel losses among British slave vessels. [12]
On 16 April Mon Oncle Thomas captured the slave ship Venus, Hassler, master, off the Windward Coast. [11] Mon Oncle Thomas sent Venus into Cayenne. [d] LL reported in July 1804, that "Uncle Toby" had captured Imperial, Price, master, as Imperial was coming from Africa, and had sent Imperial into Cayenne. [12] [e]
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]
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 ...
Then in December 1788 she left on the first of three voyages as a slave ship. On her third voyage as a slave ship Robust captured a French slave ship and recaptured two British slave ships that a French privateer had captured earlier. After her third voyage as a slaver owners shifted her registry to Bristol and she then made two voyages to the ...
The last known U.S. slave ship is too “broken” and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of archaeologists, engineers ...
The captain-turned-pirate sank the stolen ship 170 years ago, ... Sunken ship of the only slave trader executed in US may have been found off Brazil. Aspen Pflughoeft. July 13, 2023 at 11:10 AM ...
In January 1808, HMS Cerberus seized the American schooner, the Nancy with a cargo of enslaved Senegalese Africans in the Territory's waters; between August 1814 and February 1815 a further four ships' slave cargoes were seized from the Venus, the Manuella, the Atrevido and the Candelaria and a further 1,318 liberated slaves were deposited on ...