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Isabella, British slave ship that brought the first 150 African slaves to the American port of Philadelphia in 1684. Jamaica Planter, Mr. George Burton, merchant of London, was slave trading on Gold Coast and West Indies in 1775. [18] James, was launched in Spain in 1802, almost certainly under another name. She was captured in 1804 and ...
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.
The Middle Passage was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans [2] were transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods (first side of the triangle), which were then traded for slaves with rulers of African states and other ...
For example, aboard the slave ship Clare, the enslaved Africans revolted and drove the crew from the vessel and took control of the ship and liberated themselves and landed near Cape Coast Castle in present-day Ghana in 1729. On other slave ships enslaved Africans sunk ships, killed the crew, and set fire to ships with explosives.
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] The ship was a two-masted schooner, 86 feet (26 m) long with a beam of 23 ft (7.0 m).
The Zong massacre was a mass killing of more than 130 enslaved African people by the crew of the British slave ship Zong on and in the days following 29 November 1781. [a] The William Gregson slave-trading syndicate, based in Liverpool, owned the ship as part of the Atlantic slave trade. As was common business practice, they had taken out ...
e. The West Africa Squadron, also known as the Preventative Squadron, [1] was a squadron of the British Royal Navy whose goal was to suppress the Atlantic slave trade by patrolling the coast of West Africa. [2] Formed in 1808 after the British Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act 1807 and based out of Portsmouth, England, [3] it remained an ...
The Blockade of Africa began in 1808 after the United Kingdom outlawed the Atlantic slave trade, making it illegal for British ships to transport slaves. The Royal Navy immediately established a presence off Africa to enforce the ban, called the West Africa Squadron. Although the ban initially applied only to British ships, Britain negotiated ...