Atlantic Slave Trade

Barbados was a major staging point in the Atlantic slave trade and an early model for Saint-Domingue's plantation system.

The Bight of Benin was a major origin point for enslaved Africans in the Atlantic trade.

Atlantic Slave Trade

Brazil was the largest recipient of enslaved Africans in the entire Atlantic slave trade.

Atlantic Slave Trade

Atlantic Slave Trade

The Gold Coast (modern Ghana) was a major origin zone for enslaved Africans in the Atlantic trade.

Jamaica was the largest British slave colony and a major transit point in the Atlantic trade.

Atlantic Slave Trade

La Rochelle merchants participated extensively in the French slave trade.

Nantes merchants were the primary French participants in the Atlantic slave trade.

Saint-Domingue was one of the largest consumers of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic trade.

Senegambia was a significant origin region for enslaved Africans transported to Saint-Domingue.

Suriname was a major Dutch plantation colony sustained by the Atlantic slave trade.

Atlantic Slave Trade

The Middle Passage was the transatlantic leg of the Atlantic slave trade.

The slave ship was the instrument of the Atlantic slave trade.

The Atlantic slave trade was the mechanism that created social death at scale.

The triangular trade was the commercial circuit of the Atlantic slave trade.

Atlantic Slave Trade

Atlantic Slave Trade

Atlantic Slave Trade

Atlantic Slave Trade

Atlantic Slave Trade

Atlantic Slave Trade