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Slave ship

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slave ship
ship type
Yaɣ shelicargo ship Mali niŋ
Di bukaataAfrican slave trade Mali niŋ

A plan of the British slave ship Brookes, showing how 454 slaves were accommodated on board after the Slave Trade Act 1788. This same ship had reportedly carried as many as 609 slaves and was 267 tons burden, making 2.3 slaves per ton.[1] Published by the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade


Slave ships daa nyɛla " cargo ships" kara ka bɛ daa mali li 17th zaŋ chaŋ 19th century ka di nyɛla daba ka bɛ daa mali li n-vara. Bɛ daa lahi booni la lala shitimanima ŋɔ "Guineamen" ka di nyɛla daabiligu maa ni daa lahi chani ni nisalinima fitiina niŋbu Guinea coast din be West Africa.[2]

Zaŋ chaŋ 17th century, di daa gari yuun pia Europeans ni daa chaŋ Americas,[3] n-ti bɔri ni bɛ mali dab n tumdi tuma. Atlantic slave trade daa nyɛla di du zuɣussaa 18th century bahigu polo, Kongo Civil War saha mini di naabu nyaaŋa.[4]

Bɛ ni daa yɛn niŋ shɛ ka nyɔri be din ni, ban daa su shitimanima maa daa pirila tuma maa bu shɛm, ka bɛ ni tooi ʒi daba pam bɛ yaa tariga, dehydration, dysentery, ni scurvy daa kurila daba pam kamani vaabu pinaanu[5] ni kamani bɛ ni daa gbahi shɛba buta ni.[6]

Shitimanima maa soya pam daa yila north-western mini western teeku polo Africa zaŋ chaŋ South America mini south-east teeku yaɣili din nyɛ bɛ ni pa booni shɛli United States, ni Caribbean. Kamani Africa miliyɔŋ pishi ka bɛ daa mali shitima maa ʒira.[7]

  1. Walvin 2011, p. 27.
  2. "Guineaman" at Oxford English Dictionary; retrieved 24 October 2017
  3. Native Americans Prior to 1492. Historycentral.com. Retrieved on 3 December 2015.
  4. Thornton, John (1998). Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400–1800 (2nd ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 304–5. ISBN 978-0-521-62217-2.
  5. Mancke, Elizabeth and Shammas, Carole. The Creation of the British Atlantic World. 2005, pages 30–1
  6. History: The Middle Passages. The Middle Passage – A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie.. Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society, Inc..
  7. Shillington, Kevin (2007). "Abolition and the Africa Trade". History Today 57 (3): 20–27.