Slave Trade

CHY 4U

Trading Ship

The Southwell Frigate Tradeing on ye Coast of Africa (c. 1760) by Nicholas Pocock.

Port Cities Bristol: Bristol’s Entry into the Slave Trade. 2003. http://discoveringbristol.org.uk/slavery/routes/bristol-to-africa/bristol-trading-port/slave-trade-entry/ (Sept. 14, 2010).

Trade and Triangular Trade

Jamaica, one of the biggest destinations for slaves

European trading forts on the African coast

Ibid,. http://discoveringbristol.org.uk/slavery/routes/places-involved/west-indies/ ; http://discoveringbristol.org.uk/slavery/routes/places-involved/europe/; http://discoveringbristol.org.uk/slavery/map/

Triangular Trade

Process

Slaves loaded onto a small boat and rowed out to the ship (note the African merchant)

A View of ye Jason Privateer (c. 1760) by Nicholas Pocock.

Ibid., http://discoveringbristol.org.uk/browse/slavery/detail-from-a-view-of-ye-jason-privateer/

Slave FortCape Coast Castle, Gold Coast

Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite, Jr. - Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the University of Virginia

Library. The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record. European Forts and

Trading Posts in Africa. 2010. http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/return.php?categorynum=4&categoryName=European%20Forts

%20and%20Trading%20Posts%20in%20Africa (Sept. 26, 2010).

Accounts

Log book from the ship Black Prince showing slaves bought

Port Cities Bristol: Bristol and Transatlantic Slavery. 2003., http://discoveringbristol.org.uk/browse/slavery/page-

from-log-book-of-black-prince/ (Sept. 14, 2010).

Branding Irons

Handler and Tuite, http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/details.php?categorynum=6&categoryName=Slave%20Sales%20and%20Auctions:%20African%20Coast%20and%20the%20Americas&theRecord=30&recordCount=73

Found in the Wilberforce Museum in Hull, England

Force

Leg irons, shackles and chains

Port Cities Bristol, http://discoveringbristol.org.uk/browse/slavery/leg-irons/; http://discoveringbristol.org.uk/slavery/routes/from-africa-to-america/atlantic-crossing/people-taken-from-africa/; The Ouidah Museum of History – Themes: The Slave Trade. N.d. http://www.museeouidah.org/Theme-SlaveTrade.htm (Sept. 15, 2010).

Handcuffs and leg shackles

ConditionsPlan of the ship Brookes, from Thomas Clarkson, History of the Slave Trade

Port Cities Bristol, http://discoveringbristol.org.uk/browse/slavery/plan-of-slave-ship-brookes/

Diverse Peoples and Kingdoms Europeans referred to African areas as Guinea:

Yoruba Edo Igbo Baule Mende Asante Dahomey Kongo

Etc.

Destinations

An ideal plantation, 1762, from Diderot’s Dictionnaire des Sciences

Ibid., http://discoveringbristol.org.uk/browse/slavery/an-ideal-plantation/

Working in the Caribbean

Sugar cane, 1764

Sugar mill, 1762, from Diderot

Ibid., http://discoveringbristol.org.uk/slavery/routes/places-involved/west-indies/years-work/

Sugar Boiling House

Trinidad, 1830s

Handler and Tuite, http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/details.php?categorynum=7&categoryName=New%20World%20Agriculture%20and%20Plantation%20Labor&theRecord=10&recordCount=114

Amistad

Joseph Cinque, from the Amistad Revolt, from A History of the Amistad Captives, 1840

Ibid., http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/details.php?categorynum=18&categoryName=Portraits%20and%20Illustrations%20of%20Individuals&theRecord=8&recordCount=75

People

West Africans from the Gold Coast, drawn in 1679

Ibid., http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/details.php?categorynum=18&categoryName=Portraits%20and%20Illustrations%20of%20Individuals&theRecord=2&recordCount=75; The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. 2008. http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces (Sept. 29, 2010).

Some estimates say 12.5 million people, from 1526-1867, were forced to undergo the Middle Passage