slaves

• The slave trade is estimated to have forced 15 million or more people from Africa to provide enslaved labour in the Caribbean and Americas
• Over 2 million African people are thoughts to have died on the journey across the Atlantic
• The slave trade brought vast wealth to Britain and was allowed to continue for hundreds of years
• Triangular trade


  The trade route between Europe, Africa, and the Americas
• Middle Passage


  The voyage from Africa to the New World of the Americas
• Loading the slave ship


  1. Tight pack

  2. Loose pack
• Tight pack


  • Packing as many enslaved people into the hold as possible, expecting some to die but a large number to survive
• Loose pack


  • Fewer enslaved people loaded, giving them more space to lie out, more survived the voyage