On the first leg of their trip, slave traders delivered goods from European ports to West African ones. On the "middle" leg, ship captains ... to the Americas and the Caribbean.

Once a slave ship made it to the Caribbean, the cargo of enslaved people would be sold at auction. Enslaved people were prepared for sale so that they would reach as high a price as possible.

This model shows a typical ship in the early 1700s on the Middle Passage. To preserve their profits, captains and sailors tried to limit the deaths of slaves from disease, suicide, and recolts.

Their lives were thrown into chaos when they decided to travel to England to establish trade relations – but got sold into ...

General History of the Caribbean: Volume III The slave societies of the ... captivity or on board European slave ships en route to the New World. West African societies change due to the trade ...

This was the slave ship Camargo ... Ten years ago, not one ship that sank in the Middle Passage had ever been identified. The African diaspora’s watery cradle was an archeological blank ...

Dr Ruderman and Dr Gregg focus on the experiences of the French-owned slave ship the Bonne Société as it traded in the port town of Loango, West Central Africa, from November ... to continue its ...

Slaves taken from west Africa were all bought by Europeans on the coast, from African tribes. Trading posts being located on Islands or peninsulas, with salt water around them as a defence against ...

On the first leg of their trip, slave traders delivered goods from European ports to West African ones. On the "middle" leg, ship captains ... to the Americas and the Caribbean.