Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Description
The transatlantic slave trade is largely responsible for bringing to the Americas enslaved Africans. The slave trade is said to have drawn between ten and twenty million Africans from their homeland, with approximately six hundred thousand coming to Jamaica (one of the largest importer of slaves at the time) between 1533 and 1807.
The Slave Trade collection is a bibliography commemorating the abolition of the slave trade in the West Indies. It includes a selected number of full-text items as well.
The Slave Trade collection is a bibliography commemorating the abolition of the slave trade in the West Indies. It includes a selected number of full-text items as well.
Orange Valley, Slave Hospital
Ruins of the Orange Valley Slave Hospital in the parish of Trelawny, Jamaica.
Spatula
Photograph of a carved wooden spoon used to stir food. It was produced by people in the runaway slave communities of Suriname. Craft work such as this spatula was a form of resistance to slavery.
Leg-irons
Photograph of a set of leg-irons that were once used to restrain captives and to stop them from escaping. Being put in leg-irons was also punishment on plantations.