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The shipping of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic, as estimated in the Slave Voyages database.

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1501–1866

Transatlantic slave trade. The shipping of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic, as estimated in the Slave Voyages database.

Transatlantic slave trade includes Voyage of the slave ship Sally, 1764–65 and Killings on the Zong, 1781.

Transatlantic slave trade appears in Slave Voyages database.

Transatlantic slave trade benefited Lloyd’s of London.

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