Back Sklavenschiff German Slave ship English Sklavoŝipo Esperanto Barco negrero Spanish Orjalaiva Finnish Navire négrier French ספינת עבדים HE Nave negriera Italian 奴隷船 Japanese 노예선 Korean
This is how Africans were shipped as cargo aboard ships
Slave ships were large cargo ships that had been changed so they could transport slaves.
They were key to the triangular trade. Slave ships brought newly enslaved African people to the Americas. This trip across the Atlantic Ocean was called the Middle Passage.
Between 1526 and 1867, slave ships took around 12.5 million slaves from Africa to the Americas.[1] Conditions were horrible, and around 1.8 million slaves died along the way.[1] This was the deadliest migration in human history.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Facts about the Slave Trade and Slavery". The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Retrieved 29 January 2016.