200 slaves were on a average ship
There was not one for the slaves. The 'went' where they were chained up.
The slaves would be thrown into the deck of the ship where there would have been no space, light or dryness because there were so many of them. Many slaves died as a result of this and because of deadly diseases being passed from slave to slave. Stories tell of how one captain of a slave ship, hung up a female black slave by her foot and then whipped her because she refused to dance naked on the deck of his ship - an invasion of privacy.
slave scramble was when the slaves were placed on the boat and men were on one side and women on the other and at the sound of a gun men would dash onto the ship and grab as may slaves as possible
If the slaves were sick, they would usually be thrown offboard and left to swim. This is because no-one would want to buy the sick slaves.
it was a british slave ship famous for a massacre of lots of slaves The Zong is a slave ship thata was involved in the Slave Trade, the Zong was owned by a man called James Gregson. On one particular trip, the Zong was sailing from Africa to the West Indies, when its captain, Captain Collingwood was killed by disease.
A typical slave ship carried no less then 200 and no more than 500 slaves when it departed from West Africa. There may have been as many as 20 million slaves transported to the Americas over the years of the slave trade. On most voyages one third of the ship's cargo failed to complete the voyage due to poor hygiene, illness or being crushed by the number of people, That cargo loss (slaves) where merely part of the cost of doing business. A boat from the Middle Passage would have the lower decks crammed full of slaves. Normally the wasted space would only count up to around 1 or 2 metres. Life was tough for a slave. Your hands were cuffed and you would be in pitch black for a few months. Many were temporarily blinded through shock of seeing bright light after all those days.
he only had one slave
The first slave trader from Britain was a man called John Hawkins. However in 1619 the slave trade officially starts. It was awful. the zong ship was one of the worst...
Well there really isn't a first slave because none of the slave masters took one by one. But there probably was a first person to start working as a slave or a first person to get chosen to be a slave and there probably was a first person to step on the ship and go to america and be a slave. By Jaraya Buchanan 10 years old Ossining, New York.
The slaves had a very difficult journey. The conditions in which they stayed for 4 to 6 weeks were unbearable. The slave traders would cram as many slaves as they could on board the ship; in some cases the slaves hardly had enough room to breath never mind move. The voyage was usually a rough ride, some slaves were thrown about and badly injured, some wanted to die. The t'ween deck were stained with blood and mucus. 'The smell overpowered my nose' one slave said The slave traders tortured the slaves physically and sexually, also cutting off the arms and legs of other slaves to warn them if they misbehaved.
There were49,Because one of the states was Free
the one with the biggest kneegrows in it