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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.
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.
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The schooner Clotilda (often misspelled Clotilde) was the last known U.S. slave ship to bring captives from Africa to the United States, arriving at Mobile Bay, in autumn 1859 [1] or on July 9, 1860, [2] [3] with 110 African men, women, and children. [4]
Joseph Cinqué (1814–1879), also known as Sengbe Pieh, leader of a slave rebellion on the slave ship La Amistad and defendant in the subsequent Supreme Court case United States v. Amistad in 1839. Joseph Jackson Fuller (1825–1908), one of the earliest slaves to be freed in Jamaica , initially under the partial freedoms of the 1833 Slavery ...
Pages in category "American slave ships" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Clotilda (slave ship)
Most historians long believed that Wanderer was the last slave ship to reach the US, including W. E. B. Du Bois, in his book The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638–1870. But the schooner Clotilda landed slaves in 1860 and is the last known slave ship to bring captives to the US.
By 2008, the project had gathered data on nearly 35,000 transatlantic slave voyages from 1501 to 1867. For each voyage they sought to establish dates, owners, vessels, captains, African visits, American destinations, numbers of slaves embarked, and numbers landed.