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This interactive, designed and built by Slate’s Andrew Kahn, gives you a sense of the scale of the trans-Atlantic slave trade across time ... And if you pause the map and click on a dot ...
Between the years 1640 and 1807, British traders transported an estimated 3.1 million Africans across the Atlantic ... as enslaved people. Map of the slave trade, showing the percentage of ...
Compare the map above, showing slave ships in 1818, with the one showing ships in 1787 during the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. During the intervening decades, the major slave ports in ...
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B: The journey across the Atlantic of Africans stolen for the slave trade. C: Another name for the “Triangular Trade ... and 3D modeling technology to map the plantation.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A hotly contested proposal to refer to the slave trade as the "Atlantic triangular trade" was changed to call it the "trans-Atlantic slave trade."... AUSTIN, Texas (AP ...
A virtual memorial of ribbons on maps of the Atlantic deep seabed could honor the estimated 1.8 million Africans who died at sea during the trans-oceanic slave trade, said a proposal published ...
As European countries debate whether to apologise for the transatlantic slave trade in past centuries ... million Africans were taken across the notorious Middle Passage of the Atlantic - mainly to ...
Well, think again. The most comprehensive analysis of shipping records over the course of the slave trade is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, edited by professors David Eltis and David ...