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With corrections for missing voyages, the Project has estimated the entire size of the transatlantic slave trade with more comprehension, precision, and accuracy than before. They reckon that in 366 years, slaving vessels embarked about 12.5 million captives in Africa, and landed 10.7 million in the New World.
William Boats (1716-1794) was a Liverpool slave trader. [1] Boats was responsible for 157 slave voyages, over half of his slaves were sent from the Bight of Biafra to Jamaica . [ 2 ]
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 ...
Martha was launched in 1788 in Liverpool. She made eleven voyages as a slave ship, carrying slaves from West Africa to the West Indies.On her fourth voyage, she and five other vessels bombarded Calabar for more than three hours to force the local native traders to lower the prices they were charging for slaves.
Saphir completed two slave voyages. The first in 1737 [1] and the second in 1741. [2] During the second voyage the wind did not blow leaving the crew and enslaved people stranded at sea without sufficient food and water. A revolt by the enslaved people erupted. [3]
Backhouse was launched in 1798, at Dartmouth. In all, she made four voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. Between the second and the third, and again after the fourth, she was a West Indiaman.
Then on October 5, 1797, Brown became the first American tried in federal court under the Slave Trade Act of 1794 for using Hope in the African slave trade. [4] On that voyage in 1796 the Hope had traveled to Havana, Cuba, with 229 slaves. [4] After the forced sale, during the Quasi-War with France, Hope was captured by French privateers. [5]
A database of slave voyages from Liverpool shows that Britannia, Joseph James, master, and John Gregson, owner, had sailed for West Central Africa and St. Helena on 17 January 1793. [7] James received a letter of marque dated 25 April 1793, [ 3 ] i.e., in absentia , war with France having broken out after Britannia had sailed.