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Brookes, British Slave Ship, 1788

Entitled: "Stowage of the British slave ship Brookes under the regulated slave trade act of 1788." Slave ships were large cargo ships specially converted for the purpose of transporting slaves, especially newly purchased African slaves to the Americas. In order to achieve profit, the owners of the ships divided their hulls into holds with little headroom, so they could transport as many slaves as possible. Unhygienic conditions, dehydration, dysentery and scurvy led to a high mortality rate, on average 15% and up to a third of captives. Slavery in the US was the legal institution of chattel slavery that existed in the USA in the 18th and 19th centuries. The US was polarized by slavery into slave and free states along the Mason-Dixon Line, which separated Maryland (slave) and Pennsylvania (free). Although the international slave trade was prohibited from 1808, internal slave-trading continued at a rapid pace, causing the forced migration of more than one million slaves from the Upper South to the Deep South in the antebellum years. The total slave population in the South eventually reached four million before abolition.
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Brookes, British Slave Ship, 1788
Descripción:
Traducción automática: Titulado: "Estiba del barco de esclavos británico Brookes según la ley regulada sobre el comercio de esclavos de 1788". Los barcos de esclavos eran grandes buques de carga especialmente convertidos con el propósito de transportar esclavos, especialmente esclavos africanos recién comprados a las Américas. Para obtener ganancias, los propietarios de los barcos dividieron sus cascos en bodegas con poco espacio para poder transportar tantos esclavos como fuera posible. Las condiciones antihigiénicas, la deshidratación, la disentería y el escorbuto provocaron una alta tasa de mortalidad, en promedio del 15% y hasta un tercio de los cautivos. La esclavitud en los EE. UU. fue la institución legal de la esclavitud de bienes muebles que existió en los EE. UU. en los siglos XVIII y XIX. Estados Unidos estaba polarizado por la esclavitud en estados esclavistas y libres a lo largo de la Línea Mason-Dixon, que separaba Maryland (esclavo) y Pensilvania (libre). Aunque el comercio internacional de esclavos estuvo prohibido desde 1808, el comercio interno de esclavos continuó a un ritmo rápido, provocando la migración forzada de más de un millón de esclavos del Alto Sur al Sur Profundo en los años anteriores a la guerra. La población total de esclavos en el Sur llegó finalmente a cuatro millones antes de la abolición.
Entitled: "Stowage of the British slave ship Brookes under the regulated slave trade act of 1788." Slave ships were large cargo ships specially converted for the purpose of transporting slaves, especially newly purchased African slaves to the Americas. In order to achieve profit, the owners of the ships divided their hulls into holds with little headroom, so they could transport as many slaves as possible. Unhygienic conditions, dehydration, dysentery and scurvy led to a high mortality rate, on average 15% and up to a third of captives. Slavery in the US was the legal institution of chattel slavery that existed in the USA in the 18th and 19th centuries. The US was polarized by slavery into slave and free states along the Mason-Dixon Line, which separated Maryland (slave) and Pennsylvania (free). Although the international slave trade was prohibited from 1808, internal slave-trading continued at a rapid pace, causing the forced migration of more than one million slaves from the Upper South to the Deep South in the antebellum years. The total slave population in the South eventually reached four million before abolition.
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3544 x 4200 px | 42.6 MB
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30.0 x 35.6 cm | 11.8 x 14.0 in (300 dpi)