SLO 1: Missing Bodies at Final Disembarking

According to the “The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database… [it has] information on almost 36,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. The actual number is estimated to have been as high as 12.5 million” (Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database). What made in stop in astonishment was the number of passengers that didn’t make it to the final disembarking. In my previous post, highlighted in red the number of missing bodies from each of the voyages that I collected data from. I did a little math and from the seven voyages I collected data from the average number of passengers to just disappear were 30 per a vessel. It seems at estimate was rather low. As as stated in the article titled  The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, “Scholars estimate that from ten to nineteen percent of the millions of Africans forced into the Middle Passage across the Atlantic died due to rough conditions on slave ships” (African Passages, Lowcountry Adaption).  That means that close to 2.5 million people passed away due to the conditions they were forced into. AND This is only the number of deaths of those that made it to a ship!

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            "The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database." Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. 

                       Emory University, n.d. Web. 19 Feb. 2016."


            "The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade · African Passages, Lowcountry Adaptations." 

                        Low country Digital History Initiative. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Feb. 2016."