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 HISTORY AND ORIGIN OF AFRICAN SLAVE TRADES
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There are many detailed articles about the African slave trrades on the net. Here are the best of them:
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Chronology Of The History Of Slavery; 1619-1789 and 1790-1829 (Very detailed)
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The African American: A Journey from Slavery to Freedom ("..is an exhibit which shows America in crisis and how that point in time was resolved. Slavery as an issue in America was in constant conflict with the founding Democratic principles of this nation...")
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Slavery and the rise of capitalism - The Making of New World Slavery: from the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800.
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The Truth About Slavery. American Dissident Voices ("..The history of America and of Western Civilization is not being taught as it should be in our schools and universities today. Historical facts are suppressed, and what is taught is distorted in such a way..")
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AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE STATISTICS & ECONOMICS |
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The African slave trades can't be completely understood when not knowing their economics:
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The Economics of the African Slave Trade ("..In Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust, John Henrik Clarke asserts that the voyages of Christopher Columbus marked the starting point of world capitalism and the beginning of Europe's colonial domination of the world. Columbus set in motion an act of criminality that influences our very life today. Clarke described the period between 1400-1600 as the point..")
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Intro to Afro-American Studies - Colonialism and the Slave Trade: Toward a Paradigm of Unity in Afro-American Studies ("..In 1694 the ship "Hannibal" dumped 320 of its cargo of 700 slaves overboard during the Middle Passage. Thus 43% of its cargo was brutally murdered on the voyage from Africa to the "New World." In 1781..")Slavery ("The French and Dutch nearly went to war over a border dispute in South America. But the importance of the coffee trade was such that in order to avoid a war that would interrupt that commerce they appealed to the Brazilians to arbitrate their disagreement.." - Brazil)
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The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Origins of the Black Atlantic World (Slave Trade Statistics)
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SLAVE TRADE ACCOUNTS AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES |
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We have knowledge of interesting accounts about the African slave trades. Here are some of them:
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John Barbot, an agent for the French Royal African Company, made at least two voyages to the West Coast of Africa, in 1678 and 1682
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Alexander Falconbridge, a surgeon aboard slave ships and later the governor of a British colony for freed slaves in Sierra Leone, offers a vivid account of Middle Passage.
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SLAVE SHIPS |
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How was the situation on the slave ships? See this chapter:
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Diagram of the slave ship Brooks ("..Men on the right, women on the left, children in the middle. The decks which this ship alloted to slaves were six foot wide platforms without enough headroom to sit up. It was approximately a hundred day journey from Africa to the Americas..")
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A Slave Ship Speaks - The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie ("..The Henrietta Marie sank near Key West in 1701 after delivering a consignment of African captives to the island of Jamaica. These two essays thoughtfully explore the history of the ship and the nature of slavery...")
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Aboard a Slave Ship, 1829
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Slave Ships ("..An estimated 15 million Africans were transported to the Americas between 1540 and 1850. To maximize their profits slave merchants carried as many slaves as was physically possible on their ships" - with snippets of accounts given)
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SLAVE TRADE IMAGES |
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There exist some very detailed libraries and image collections about the period of slavery:
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A Visual Record ("..The hundreds of images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery. This collection is envisioned as a tool and a resource that can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and the general public -- in brief, anyone interested in the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World..")
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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves...A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves
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