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Most of the Atlantic slave trade was carried out by seven nations and most of the slaves were carried to their own colonies in the new world. But there was also significant other trading which is shown in the table below. [212] The records are not complete, and some data is uncertain.
Throughout the height of the Atlantic slave trade (1570–1808), ships that transported the enslaved were normally smaller than traditional cargo ships, with most ships that transported the enslaved, weighing between 150 and 250 tons. This equated to about 350 to 450 enslaved Africans on each slave ship, or 1.5 to 2.4 per ton.
According to James Richardson's testimony, when he visited Ghadames, most slaves were from Bornu. [67] According to Raëd Bader, based on estimates of the Trans-Saharan trade, between 1700 and 1880 Tunisia received 100,000 black slaves, compared to only 65,000 entering Algeria, 400,000 in Libya, 515,000 in Morocco and 800,000 in Egypt. [68]
The Offra trading post soon became the most important Dutch office on the Slave Coast. According to a 1670 report, annually 2,500 to 3,000 slaves were transported from Offra to the Americas. These numbers were only feasible in times of peace, however, and dwindled in time of conflict.
Wanderer, formerly last slave ship to the U.S. (November 1858) until Clotilda reported in 1859 or 1860. Wildfire, a barque, arrested off the Florida coast by the US Navy in 1860; carrying 450 slaves. [40] Whydah Gally, a ship that transported cargo, passengers, and slaves.
The most serious slave rebellion was the 1739 Stono Uprising in South Carolina. The colony had about 56,000 enslaved Blacks, outnumbering whites two-to-one. About 150 enslaved people rose up, seizing guns, ammunition, and killing twenty whites before fleeing to Spanish Florida. The local militia soon intercepted and killed most of the slaves ...
In the fall of 1841, the American brig Creole, owned by Johnson and Eperson of Richmond, Virginia, was transporting 135 enslaved African-Americans for sale in New Orleans, a major market in the American South for slaves. 103 of those who would be transported on Creole were being kept in slave pens at Richmond, while another 32 were purchased at Hampton Roads for transport. [1]
Most of the Indian slaves were already converted to Christianity, were fluent in English, and took western names. [115] Their original names and homes are not known, though some of them reportedly came from Bombay and Bengal. [116] Their descendants have mostly merged with the African-American community, which also incorporated European ancestors.