Yah's people Saturday, 24 November 2012. Records of the voyages have been found in archives and libraries throughout the Atlantic world. This digital memorial raises questions about the largest slave trades in history and offers access to the documentation available to answer them. He had a ship named “Jesus of Lubeck” which he used to transport slaves that he says he obtained “partly by the sword and partly by other means” into the Americas to trade with the Spaniards. This forced migration caused the displacement, torture, enslavement and murder of many Africans. original source. Throughout the course of the Atlantic Slave Trade, an estimated 12 million Africans were captured in their homeland and forcibly shipped across the Atlantic, on more than 35,000 voyages, starting in the 17th century* The African Diaspora scattered Africans throughout the Caribbean and Americas. These voyages operated within colonial empires, across imperial boundaries, and inside the borders of nations such as the United It displays the African name, age, gender, origin, country, and places of embarkation and disembarkation Previous You can also look up Charleston Manifests by Slave Owner [table striped="true" responsive="true"][table striped="true" responsive="true"] Slave NameShip Age Sex Class Slave ResidenceAbigailEdgefield 34 Female Black Charleston, S.C.Abraham Hamburg 11 Male Black … images) European colonizers turned to Africa for enslaved laborers to build the cities and extract the resources of the Americas. ""Liberated Africans"" taken from the ""Virginie"". that is your answer.Did you just mention slaves were shipped to Africa?Introduction: Scott Phillips is a genealogical historian and owner of Onward To Our Past® genealogy…Introduction: Sarah Brooks, from Freepeoplesearch.org, is a Houston-based freelance writer and blogger. The Schooner ""Virginie"" was captured at sea by British cruisers and Yah's people Saturday, 24 November 2012. *** “An Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves into any Port or Place Within the Jurisdiction of the United States, From and After the First Day of January, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eight.” The Avalon Project. A theophoric name (from Greek: ... names referring to Yah, a shortened form of Yahweh. Newspapers have obituaries that give family names, relatives and places. The May 1861 Contraband decision by General Butler at Fort Monroe during the beginning of the Civil War was a significant change in slavery in America. images) names referring to Levantine deities (especially the storm god, Hadad) by the epithet Baal, meaning lord. This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. In this example from a 1785 South Carolina newspaper, Fisher & Edwards advertise that the ship An earlier South Carolina advertisement proclaims that the slaves aboard Captain Buncombe’s ship Articles under “Shipping News” or “Marine List” headlines are a good place to start searching for information about slave ships, crew, and cargo.In this example from a 1799 New York newspaper, we see updates on various ships including information about deaths on ships. The African Names Database provides personal details of 91,491 Africans taken from captured slave ships or from African trading sites. Is there really proof of the ships, and the census of slaves documented upon arrival due to name changes, which makes it even harder for me to search? From what I’ve gathered thus far, European slave trade was quite common between Europeans and Muslims. and areas of Africa. Europeans misspelled many of the names.