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3 days ago · The Emotional Impact of Discovery. For many of these divers, the search for lost slave ships is deeply personal. It's a chance to connect with their ancestry, to honor the sacrifices of their ancestors, and to reclaim a part of their history that was stolen. The act of diving becomes a pilgrimage, a way to pay homage to those who were lost at sea.
1 day ago · Slave-owning slaves. Fortunata, slave of a slave of a slave. Contract for her purchase, Roman London, c. 90 AD, dug up at No 1 Poultry in 1994, as deciphered by Roger Tomlin. In some human societies there were slaves who owned slaves. Although details varied, there were two broad cases: peculium slavery, and elite political slavery.
5 days ago · Slave trade, the capturing, selling, and buying of enslaved persons. Slavery has existed throughout the world since ancient times, and trading in slaves has been equally universal. The practice of slavery continued in many countries (illegally) into the 21st century.
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5 days ago · Slave ships were cargo vessels converted for the purpose of transporting slaves from Africa to the Americas. In order to achieve high profits, ship owners divided the hull into between decks, to fit in as many slaves as possible.
2 days ago · The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage.
3 days ago · There are six ship-builders' yards at Whitehaven: the vessels built at this port are in great repute. There is an extensive manufactory of sail-cloth, established in the year 1786, and some large rope-yards.
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2 days ago · During the late 1820s, slave exports from the Delagoa Bay area reached several thousand a year, in advance of what proved to be an ineffective attempt to abolish the Brazilian trade in 1830. After a dip in the early 1830s, the Bay slave trade peaked in the late 1840s.
