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Atlantic Slave Trade

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U.S. international slave trade ban, enforcement, and notable cases (1808–1860)

1807 - 1861

Spanish asiento contracts and the transatlantic slave trade (1503–1750)

1503 - 1750

Royal African Company and English company-based slave trading (1672–1752)

1660 - 1752

Portuguese and Brazilian slave trade to Brazil (1500–1850)

1494 - 1850

Nantes and the French Atlantic slave trade (1680–1815)

1685 - 2012

Mutinies and revolts aboard Atlantic slave ships (1600–1850)

1730 - 1841

Middle Passage: mortality, shipboard conditions, and reform efforts (1600–1850)

1672 - 1850

Liverpool's rise as a dominant slave-trading port (1699–1807)

1698 - 1807

Haitian Revolution and its impact on the Atlantic slave trade (1791–1804)

1790 - 1804

French colonial slave trade and abolition (1685–1848)

1685 - 1848

European forts and castles on the Gold Coast and slave exports (1482–1872)

1471 - 1872

Dutch West India Company and the Dutch Atlantic slave trade (1621–1815)

1621 - 1814

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