This model shows a typical ship in the early 1700s on the Middle ... In the grisly arithmetic of the slave trade, captains usually chose between two options: pack in as many slaves as possible ...

William Wilberforce used the model during the Abolition Campaign to demonstrate the horrors of the Middle Passage.The model was based on an actual slave ship built in Liverpool in 1780-81 and co ...

Upon landing on Africa's "slave coast," the cargo was exchanged for Africans. Fully loaded with its human cargo, the ship set sail for the Americas, where the slaves were exchanged for sugar ...

On the first leg of their trip, slave traders delivered goods from European ports to West African ones. On the "middle" leg, ship captains such as John Newton (who later became a foe of slavery ...

Models depict ... of slaves from Africa to America. It was the fourth largest slave trading city in Europe, and more than 500,000 enslaved people were deported by Nantes ships during the 18th ...

2. Brazilian traders were finding it difficult to operate in West Africa because the British navy was intercepting slave ships. The Brazilians made the journey round the Cape of Good Hope ...