Rare Photos Of African Slaves On A Slave Ship, HEADED TOWARDS THE STATES

jett Black · (#1 (**permalink**))

W

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And that looks like one of the more pleasant journeys!

I'm no historian but I didnt even think they had photography til about 1900??? obviously im wrong.

Saida.M · (#2 (**permalink**))

What am i missing? Slavery ended for Britain ended in 1835: America 1865. confused3

DSP · (#3 (**permalink**))

Black_power wrote:

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Indian Ocean: East African slaves taken aboard the Dutch HMS
Daphne from a Arab dhow, 1 November 1868.

These photographs dated 1868 reveals a very little of the terrible suffering caused to millions of people by the slave trade. This group of severely emaciated boys and young men on the lower deck of a Royal Naval ship apparently have been taken from what was a slave vessel trading illegally off the African coast headed to the Americas. The captain of the Royal Naval ship had instructions not to return the rescued slaves to the place on the coast where they had been put on the slave ship (presumably because they were in danger of being recaptured by traders) but it is not clear from the available documentation what happened to them afterwards.

The Indian Ocean Slave trade evolved around the Indian Ocean basin. Slaves were taken from mainland East Africa and sold in markets in the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf. In contrast to the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, the Indian Ocean Slave Trade was much older dating back from at least the second century C.E. until the early twentieth century. For example, the oldest written document from the East Africa Coast, the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, describes a small trade in slaves around the second century C.E. Notice the physical features of the Arabs.

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BP, the title says they were headed towards the states, but the description says Arabian peninsula

Saida.M · (#4 (**permalink**))

Ok I can see that i need my eyes testing as i can now see your post says they were trading illegally.

shesheshe · (#5 (**permalink**))

When I look at those pictures it just fills me with horror to think that people could be so evil. And for those that kid themselves and say that things have changed, those pictures were only taken a century before most of us were born. In terms of history that is really not that long ago.

jett Black · (#6 (**permalink**))

Whats even more bizzare is that out of the 1000's of members on Blacknet there is a chance that someone in those pictures could be related us and we wouldnt know it.*Erm that sentence is very well constructed but you know what I mean*

YankeeJamaRican · (#7 (**permalink**))

For real, JB, I was thinking the same...

Are we looking at the face of one of our ancestors?As adiasporan, these pictures seem a bit more achingly painful to see. They've captured on film the rending of our umbilicus...

Has anyone here done the genetic profiling, i.e. mitchondrialDNA etc?

jett Black · (#8 (**permalink**))

YankeeJamaRican wrote:

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For real, JB, I was thinking the same...

Are we looking at the face of one of our ancestors?As adiasporan, these pictures seem a bit more achingly painful to see. They've captured on film the rending of our umbilicus...

Has anyone here done the genetic profiling, i.e. mitchondrialDNA etc?

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No but im desperate to do it and will one day.

Michelle33 · (#9 (**permalink**))

These are powerful images, thanks BP.

It's really strange, I've seen drawings but never photographs. It really brings it home seeing their faces. I need to get to the slavery museum in Liverpool to see what they have over there.

MASTACE · (#10 (**permalink**))

Intersting pics!!

concerning pictures.. the first photos were taken way back, around 1839.

Breadfruit · (#11 (**permalink**))

These picturesremind us of our holocaust.

They help remind us of of the injustice, the crime done to millionsour people.

They also, importantly help explain, why we are in our current condition.

Thanks BP

101stAirborne · (#12 (**permalink**))

athaba wrote:

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What am i missing? Slavery ended for Britain ended in 1835: America 1865. confused3

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You are right, and the Slave Trade was outlawed in the US, in1808. so they are not headed to the "States". BTW Joseph Nicéphore Nié produced the first photograph in 1826--18 years after the Slave trade was to have ended.