Geography Of The Atlantic Slave Trade West Africa During The Eighteenth Century

The 1,280 images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery.

...it was the British who came to dominate the Atlantic slave system. British Empire ships carried more African captives than any nation (an estimated three million) Includes the slave trade and its abolition, Records relating to transportation of slaves and goods, Campaign for abolition of the slav

The three databases below provide details of 36000 trans-Atlantic slave voyages, ... the slave ship and slave trade animations to see the dispersal in action.

An estimated 12 million Africans were transported across the Atlantic to the Western Hemisphere from 1450 to 1850. Of this number, about five percent were brought to British North America and, later, to the United States..

the infamous Middle Passage, so called because it was the middle leg of a three-part voyage -- a voyage that began and ended in Europe. ..

The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages.