The Triangular ‘Trade’
Numbers and losses on the Trans-Atlantic Crossing
Organisation of England’s Slave Trade, 1600-1800
Economics of sugar and slave labour
Profitability of the trade






Numbers and losses on the Trans-Atlantic crossing -
Useful links
 
Slave shipping from the port of London
Using graphs, this web page looks at the tonnage of slave ships which departed from London. It shows the average times of voyages across the Atlantic and the numbers of slaves that died upon them.
http://www.uwec.edu/geography/Ivogeler/Papers/Slavery/london.htm
Mortality on the slave ships
Illustrations by the artist Tom Feelings accompany this overview of the death rate aboard slave ships.
http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/students/his3487/lembrich/seminar56.html
A Review of Statistics
An estimate of the numbers of enslaved Africans who were either transported or who died in transit forms the basis of this overview of the slave trade.
http://africanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa080601a.htm
Making sense of the losses?
This well-illustrated page highlights the loss of life, which became routine during every stage of the slave trade.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1.html