Middle Passages Institute 2011University of York

Friday | Aug 5 | 2011

Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade in the Americas

Sale of enslaved Africans aboard the Sarah Bonadventure, Jamaica, 1677

Source: “Advertisement for Slave Sale, 18th cent.”; Image Reference NW0328, as shown on www.slaveryimages.org, sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the University of Virginia Library.

Slaves for Sale in Charleston, South Carolina, 1784

TSTD Voyage ID: 25396

TSTD Voyage ID 30968 (see also 30910, 30941)

View of Cap Francais, St. Domingue (Haiti) and slave ship. Shows purchase of slaves aft on the main deck, an iron barrier separating them from the quarter-deck, and Europeans apparently having a picnic on the stern; also cross- section of ship's hull with storage quarters. Caption on illustration reads: "Vue du Cap Francais et du n[avi]re la Marie Seraphique de Nantes, Capitaine Gaugy, le jour de l'ouverture de sa vente, troisieme voyage d'Angole, 1772,1773" [View of Cap Francais and the Marie Seraphique of Nantes/Captain Gaugy/the day of the opening of its [slave] sale [after] its third voyage from Angola, 1772, 1773].

Source: “French Slave Ship, La Marie-Séraphique, Saint Domingue (Haiti), 1773”; Image Reference EO30, as shown on www.slaveryimages.org, sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the University of Virginia Library

Source: “Newly Arrived Enslaved Africans, Surinam, 1770s”; Image Reference NW0265, as shown on www.slaveryimages.org, sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the University of Virginia Library.