Event
Transatlantic slave trade
The shipping of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic, as estimated in the Slave Voyages database.
- Dates
- 1501–1866
- On the Books20 scenes
- Who benefited from Transatlantic slave trade?1 link, 1 account
- How are Transatlantic slave trade and … connected?
Connections 4
includes
- Voyage of the slave ship Sally, 1764–65 Primary record 1
- Killings on the Zong, 1781 Scholarship & press 2
benefited
- Lloyd’s of London According to Black Beyond Data Scholarship & press 345
appears in
- Slave Voyages database estimated in Scholarship & press 67
Timeline 1 date
- 1501–1866 Transatlantic slave trade
Proof 7 sources
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Slavery and Justice: Report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, Brown University, 2006.
Primary record
The Sally sailed from Providence in 1764, the year of Brown’s founding.
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A New Look at the Zong Case of 1783, XVII-XVIII: Revue de la Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, 2019.
Scholarship & press
Only one slave ship in the Transatlantic Slave Trade Data Base goes by the name of the Zong.
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Lloyd’s Ledgers Reveal Key Role in 18th-Century Slave Trade, The Maritime Executive, 9 Nov 2023.
Scholarship & press
“Lloyd’s was quite central, we can see, to the maintenance of the Atlantic slave trade, and also profited,”
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Lloyd’s to Invest $65M in Regions Affected by Transatlantic Slave Trade, Reuters, via Carrier Management, 8 Nov 2023.
Scholarship & press
Historians estimate between one- and two-thirds of the British marine insurance market was based on the slave trade in the 18th century.
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Update: Lloyd’s of London Apologizes for Its ‘Shameful’ Role in Atlantic Slave Trade, Reuters, via Insurance Journal, 18 Jun 2020.
Scholarship & press
Slaves were seen as cargo by the insurance market of the time and generally included in the general insurance rate.
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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: Estimates, Slave Voyages (legacy site).
Scholarship & press
Full extent of coverage by estimates is 1501 - 1866.
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database, National Endowment for the Humanities.
Scholarship & press
the database includes data from 57 contributors, reflecting 34,948 voyages—an estimated 66 to 80 percent of all slaving expeditions to cross the Atlantic
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