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Dis be a list of slave ships. Na dem use dese were ships take carry enslaved people, mainly insyd de Atlantic slave trade between de 16th den de 19th centuries.

  • Na Abby be of 98 tons (bm). Captain Murdock Murchy sail from Liverpool on 19 September 1795. He sail from Africa on 15 May 1796. De French capture Abby insyd 1796, after she embark ein captives. She arrive at Martinique insyd July with 199 captives.[1]
  • Na dem build Abby insyd de Thirteen Colonies insyd 1774. She be of 154 tons. She appear insyd Lloyd's Register (LR) insyd 1797, plus J.Wilson, master, changing to C.Webb, owner J.Kenyon, changing to J.Siving, den trade Liverpool–New York, changing to Liverpool–Africa.[2] Captain Webb sail from Liverpool on 24 May 1797.[3] Lloyd's List report insyd December 1797, dat na de French capture am den take am into Gorée.[4]
  • Na dem launch Aggie (1777 ship) insyd Liverpool insyd 1777. She trade locally til 1781 wen na ein owners rename am Spy wey na dem place am insyd de slave trade. De French Navy capture am insyd 1782 insyd de West Indies as na she dey arrive to deliver ein cargo of enslaved people.
  • Na Africa be a slave ship wey hold Olaudah Equiano[5] insyd 1756. Abdul al-Rahman Ibrahima aka Abduhl Rahhahman aka Abdul Rahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori (1762-1829) na he be a Fulani prince wey na dem capture den ship am on de Africa[6] to America wer na dem sell am into slavery to Thomas Foster.[6]
  • Ajax na Brig mention insyd Bernard Raux slave trade papers, 1828-1836, Harvard University Library.
  • Albinia
  • Antelope (1797 ship)
  • Antelope (1802 slave ship)
  • Ariel na Brig mention insyd Bernard Raux slave trade papers, 1828-1836, Harvard University Library.
  • Aurore (slave ship), along plus Duc du Maine (slave ship), de first French slave ships wey bring de first slaves to Louisiana.
Slave revolt on La Amistad insyd 1839
  • La Amistad
  • Backhouse (1785 ship)
  • Backhouse (1798 ship}
Beeckestijn (left) dem dock insyd Amsterdam, c. 1735
  • Beeckestijn, Dutch West India Company slaver 1722-1736.
  • Bird,[7]
  • Bloom (1781 ship)
  • Bloom (1789 ship)
  • Britannia (1788 ship)
  • Brooks (1781 ship, dey sail insyd de 1780s.[8]
  • Bud (1783 ship)
  • Na Caroline be a Portuguese brigantine, dem capture by Electra (1837) on 25 March 1839 near Rio de Janeiro.[9] Na dem purchase am der on 27 May 1840 by de British navy as HMS Fawn.[10]
  • Chato Murgo, from Liverpool to Africa den de West Indies, na e lost on de coast of Africa insyd 1800.[11]
  • City of Norfolk, dem fit out insyd New York City by Albert Horn.[12]
  • Clotilda (slave ship), e burn den sink at Mobile, Alabama, insyd 1859 anaa 1860.
  • Cora, dem capture by Constellation (1854) insyd 1860.
  • Creole
  • Desire, first American slave ship.[13]
  • Na Don be a schooner of 71 tons wey sail from Britain insyd 1798 wey na e deliver 111 captives to Martinique insyd 1799.[14]
  • Duncan, a Rhode Island slave ship on de African coast insyd August 1775.[15]
  • Nile (1802 ship)
  • Pons, American-built barque dem capture by Yorktown (1839) on 1 December 1845 plus 850–900 slaves.[16]
  • Progresso, a Brazilian brigantine, na dem capture on 2 April 1843 by Cleopatra (1835) off Quelimane, Mozambique plus 440 slaves.[17]
  • Providencia, Spanish brig wey dey carry 400 slaves wen na dem capture am by ;;Monkey (1826) insyd 1829.
  • Robust (1782 ship)
  • Robuste (1793)
  • São José Paquete Africa, a Portuguese slave ship wich sink off de coast of South Africa insyd 1794 wey kill over 200 of de enslaved men den women.
  • Saphir, french slaver, 18th century.
  • Sarah (1797 ship)
  • Sarah (1798 ship)
  • Sarah (1803 ship)
  • Tecora, Portuguese slave ship wey transport de slaves wey go later revolt aboard La Amistad.
  • Thames (1790 ship)
  • Thames (1794 ship)
  • Theophilus Chase[18] One month later, na de Boston Post newspaper report de death of de new master of de brig Theophilus Chase, Capt. John Hansford, from fever on de coast of Africa.[19]
  • Triton dem capture off Loango on 16 July 1860 by Mystic (1853), den 20 May 1861 off Kongo by USS Constellation.
  • Trouvadore[20]
  • Vulture (1779 ship)
  • Wanderer, formerly last slave ship to de U.S. (November 1858) til Clotilda (slave ship) dem report insyd 1859 anaa 1860.
  • Wildfire[21]
  • Whydah Gally
  • Young Dick [22]
  • Zong

References

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  1. ↑ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Abby voyage #80001.
  2. ↑ LR (1797), Seq.no.7,
  3. ↑ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Abby voyage #81742.
  4. ↑ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 2975. 12 December 1797. hdl:2027/uc1.c3049069.
  5. ↑ Equiano, Olaudah. "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African / Written By Himself". www.gutenberg.org (in English). Retrieved 2023-11-12.
  6. 1 2 Alford, Terry (1977). "Prince Among Slaves". Prince Among Slaves (1st ed.). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. p. 27. ISBN 0151742502.
  7. ↑ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Bird voyage #80558.
  8. ↑ "Brooks Slave Ship". E. Chambre Hardman Archives. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007. Retrieved 28 February 2008.
  9. ↑ "Rio Janeiro, South America". The Standard. No. 4678. London. 18 June 1839. p. 5. Retrieved 13 June 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. ↑ Lyon, David; Winfield, Rif (2004). The sail & steam Navy list: all the ships of the Royal Navy 1815 - 1889. London: Chatham. p. 336. ISBN 1-86176-032-9.
  11. ↑ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 4082. 2 September 1800. hdl:2027/uc1.c3049070.
  12. ↑ Why the Tombs for Slave Trade Execution. Correctionhistory.org (30 November 1907). Retrieved on 2015-12-03.
  13. ↑ "Encyclopedia". Retrieved 3 July 2011.
  14. ↑ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Don voyage #81060.
  15. ↑ "Minutes of Enquiry into Administration of the West African Trade: Volume 84." Journals of the Board of Trade and Plantations: Volume 14, January 1776 - May 1782. Ed. K H Ledward. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1938. 126-146. British History Online Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  16. ↑ Gilliland, C. Herbert (2003). "Deliverance from this Floating Hell". Naval History. 17 (48–51): 20–27.
  17. ↑ "Cape of Good Hope". The Freeman's Journal. Vol. LXXVI. Dublin. 20 July 1843. p. 2. Retrieved 13 June 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  18. ↑ "Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade - Database". www.slavevoyages.org (Voyage ID 2029). Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  19. ↑ "DIED". Boston Post, Boston, Massachusetts. September 7, 1840. p. 2. Retrieved January 17, 2025.
  20. ↑ "Slave Ship Trouvadore Website". Turks & Caicos National Museum and Ships of Discovery. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
  21. ↑ Harper's Weekly, 2 June 1860, p344. Online at The Slave Heritage Resource Center accessed 3 July 2006.
  22. ↑ "Letter of Marque, p.93 – Retrieved 25 July 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.

Sources

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  • Haslam, Emily (2019). The Slave Trade, Abolition and the Long History of International Criminal Law: The Recaptive and the Victim. Routledge.
  • Williams, Gomer (1897). History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque: With an Account of the Liverpool Slave Trade. W. Heinemann.
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