Holding Forts on the Coast
Slave Ships
Middle Passage - A Way of Death
Revolts and Punishments
Preparation for Sale







Slave Ships - Useful links
 
Slave Ships - An Overview
Through multiple accounts from slaves, slavers and seamen, this UK schools site offers a very comprehensive introduction to the workings of a slave ship. A cut away illustration of the slave ship Brookes is included.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASships.htm
Slave Shipping from the Port of London
Using graphs, this web page looks at the tonnage of slave ships which depatred from London. It shows the average number of voyages across the Atlantic and the numbers of slaves that died upon them.
http://www.uwec.edu/geography/Ivogeler/Papers/Slavery/london.htm
Interior of a Slave Ship
As part of the Public Broadcasting service's Africans in America site this illustration of a slave ship taken from A History of the Amistad Captives shows how enslaved Africans were packed on board.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1h310.html
Life on the Slave Ships
This site explores the horrors of life below deck with illustrations by the artist Tom Feelings.
http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/students/his3487/lembrich/seminar53.html
Trouvadore - a Search, a Story
The Turks and Caicos Islands National Museum is leading an expedition on the 28 August 2004 to find the missing slave ship Trouvadore. The site will record their progress.
http://www.slaveshiptrouvadore.com