About 90% of the island’s population, more than 225,000 people, were slaves. Most lived and worked on plantations, and only just over 26,000 people (about 10% of the island’s population) lived in Kingston, Jamaica’s largest port town. Kingston and other ports were busy places, with new ships, goods and people arriving and leaving every day.The leg of the triangular trade linking Africa to the Americas was called the Middle Passage. This journey across miles of ocean usually began in ports along the western coasts of Africa. That's where African and European slave traders exchanged goods for enslaved people. "Enslaved Africans Landed at American Port," Courtesy of Slavery Images. From 1759-1787 eleven voyages are documented, bringing approximately 2,000 enslaved Africans directly from the African continent to North Carolina's shores. This does not include the many lives lost onboard these vessels prior to disembarking in North Carolina’s ports. The main destination for slave trade tourists in Senegal is Île de Gorée, or Goree Island. Located just off the Dakar coast, the island was colonized by the Portuguese, the Dutch, the British, and the French. It was once an important stop on the Atlantic trade route.
A Barbary pirate, Pier Francesco Mola, 1650. The Barbary pirates, Barbary corsairs, or Ottoman corsairs [1] were mainly Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from the Barbary states. This area was known in Europe as the Barbary Coast, in reference to the Berbers. [2] The main purpose of their attacks was to capture slaves for the Barbary
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