The Atlantic Slave Trade

The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes "This interactive, designed and built by Slate’s Andrew Kahn, gives you a sense of the scale of the trans-Atlantic slave trade across time, as well as the flow of transport and eventual destinations. The dots—which represent individual slave ships—also correspond to the size of each voyage. The larger the dot, the more enslaved people on board. And if you pause the map and click on a dot, you’ll learn about the ship’s flag—was it British? Portuguese? French?—its origin point, its destination, and its history in the slave trade. The interactive animates more than 20,000 voyages cataloged in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database "

Legacies of British Slave-ownership Surname searchable by robertajestes

“There were 15,000 African or African descended slaves in England in 1772”.

Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners by robertajestes

“These records include more than 40,000 British who owned slaves, most of whom had never seen a Caribbean plantation where their slaves were located. These slaves were managed by overseers, like Thistlewood. There were more than 800,000 individual slaves named in 1834, which means the average number of slaves owned per British slave owner was about 20. Of course, the real numbers ranged from 1 slave owned to thousands for the most wealthy.”