- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Slave Hold
- Date of Original:
- 1808
- Subject:
- Slavery--United States
Cargo holds
Slave ships
Ships
Slave trade - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- drawings (visual works)
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Africans captured to be sold into slavery crossed the Atlantic Ocean lying pressed together in crowded ships' holds. The city of Savannah served as a major port for the Atlantic slave trade from 1750, when the Georgia colony repealed its ban on slavery, until 1798, when the state outlawed the importation of enslaved people.
Image of an illustration of the layout of the interior of a slave ship. Africans captured to be sold into slavery crossed the Atlantic Ocean lying pressed together in crowded ships' holds. The city of Savannah served as a major port for the Atlantic slave trade from 1750, when the Georgia colony repealed its ban on slavery, until 1798, when the state outlawed the importation of enslaved people. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/atlantic-slave-trade-to-savannah/m-3671/
- Rights Holder:
- From The History of Rise, Progress & Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-trade by the British Parliament, by Thomas Clarkson
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/slavery-colonial-georgia
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/atlantic-slave-trade-savannah
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/charles-lindbergh-georgia
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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