Holding Forts on the Coast
Slave Ships
Middle Passage - A Way of Death
Revolts and Punishments
Preparation for Sale







Revolts and Punishments - Useful links
 
Description of a Slave Uprising
An uprising on board the slaver Don Carlos in 1732 is described in an extract from A Supplement to the Description of the Coasts of North and South Guinea by the sailor James Barbot.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/black_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=36
Fasting During the Middle Passage
The writer Barry Unsworth highlights how enslaved Africans refused to eat as a form of resistance during the Middle Passage.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1i3069.html
The Amistad Uprising
An in-depth look at the 1839 slave rebellion on board the Amistad and its consequences.
http://www.tulane.edu/~amistad/
Shipboard Revolts
The history of African rebellions during the Middle Passage and along the West African coast is covered in this scholarly study by historian David Richardson.
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/wm/58.1/richardson.html
Fighting Back
A brief account of mid-Atlantic slave uprisings is accompanied by illustrations by artist Tom Feelings.
http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/students/his3487/lembrich/seminar55.html