The three databases below provide details of 36,000 trans-Atlantic slave voyages, 10,000 intra-American ventures, names and personal information. You can read the introductory maps for a high-level guided explanation, view the timeline and chronology of the traffic, or watch the slave ship and slave trade animations to see the dispersal in action.

April 7 – Troops of the Burmese Konbaung dynasty sack the Siamese city of Ayutthaya, ending the Burmese–Siamese War (1765–67) after 15 months, and bringing the four-century-old Ayutthaya Kingdom to an end. King Ekkathat is found dead inside the city walls on April 9. [9]

Drawing on extensive archival records, this digital memorial allows analysis of the ships, traders, and captives in the Atlantic slave trade. The three databases below provide details of 36,000 trans-Atlantic slave voyages, 10,000 intra-American ventures, names and personal information. You can read the introductory maps for a high-level guided explanation, view the timeline and chronology of ...

Drawing on extensive archival records, this digital memorial allows analysis of the ships, traders, and captives in the Atlantic slave trade. The three databases below provide details of 36,000 trans-Atlantic slave voyages, 10,000 intra-American ventures, names and personal information.

On December 30, 1767, in Savannah, Georgia, traffickers aboard the Susannah removed 90 abducted people to sell them into enslavement. Subjected to horrific conditions during the Middle Passage aboard the Susannah, 20 of the 110 kidnapped Africans were killed during the long and deadly Transatlantic journey.

In 1767, two "princes" of a ruling family in the port of Old Calabar, on the slave coast of Africa, were ambushed and captured by English slavers. The princes, Little Ephraim Robin John and Ancona Robin Robin John, were themselves slave traders who were betrayed by African competitors--and so began their own extraordinary odyssey of enslavement.

Lord Ligonier was an 18th-century British slave ship built in New England that unloaded enslaved Africans in Annapolis, Maryland in 1767. The ship was made famous by Alex Haley's novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, in which it brought his ancestor, Kunta Kinte, from The Gambia to the colonial United States.

2025年2月5日 · Africa / performed by the Sr. Danville under the patronage of the Duke of Orleans ; revised and improved by Mr. Bolton ; E. Bowen sculpt. Creator Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782 Contributor

Europe knew little about black Africa, writes Steven R. Smith, until the trading voyages of the late sixteenth century. By the eighteenth century, Englishmen and Americans had developed the set of prejudices that led to the racial attitudes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Africa Author/Creator: Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782, Bolton, Mr. (S.), Bowen, Emanuel, -1767, and Orléans, Louis Philippe, duc d', 1725-1785 Topic: Early maps Language: English Physical Description: 1 map on 4 sheets ; 57 x 54 cm or smaller Publication Info: xx and [Place of publication not identified] :