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Slave revolts

See the remarkable history of the slave revolt on the Meermin: http://www.rebirth.co.za/slaves_a_failed_bid_for_freedom.htm

Also the amazing escape of the slaves on board L'Utile is documented in the French Wikipedia along with information about conditions on board French slave ships. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Qetzel (talk • contribs) 21:13, 17 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Slave ships

I have the severest misgivings about the design of these slave ships. As several contributors have stated, slaves were valuable goods and profits only made on the landing of a healthy slave. These various ship plans all seem to date to the period of when the slave trade was increasingly likely to be abolished and it was necessary to present the wost possible overcrowding scenario to support that same impending abolition.AT Kunene (talk) 13:26, 1 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Terminology

I strongly suggest that we refer to slaves as the Human Beings that they were. To continue to use the word 'Slave' is to undermine the human tragedy that was caused by the need to profit on the backs of others. Those ‘Slaves’ were people who had lives, who were treated with such horrors that nobody today could ever imagine. Articles like these continue to dismiss the degradation imposed on them and treat the evil atrocities inflicted on nearly twenty million people as nothing! ~~Rubychung 17th of October, 2012~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rubychung58 (talk • contribs) 22:11, 17 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You're overreacting. Nobody's dehumanizing anyone, saying slavery was a good thing, or acting like it was "nothing". The article's quite clear that the conditions they were transported in were poor. What viable alternative even exists? Things can be given fair treatment without prostrating ourselves in collective guilt. The article can use more details and sources, but there's nothing glaringly wrong like you're suggesting. --Xanzzibar (talk) 23:12, 17 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Atlantic Slave Trade Centric

This article ONLY covers the Atlantic Slave Trade ships. They may be, to us, the most infamous and well documented but the slave trade must be at least three millennia or older and there must have been many other slave ships before hand. For example the Roman empire must have transported most of its slaves by sea and the muslim world must have transported some of its large slave population by sea. Shouldn't someone expand this article to cover these ships as well, with what we know of them? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.143.200.91 (talk) 17:41, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 27 August 2018 and 8 December 2018. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Cechil, Paisley.hays58, Emmasmith9185.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 09:28, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Slave market

Slaves were getting whipped and other slave die from being whipped 41.113.186.196 (talk) 18:35, 20 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Slave Diet

This page can use a section on the diet of slaves and how exacly they were able to survives voyages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Houston515 (talk • contribs) 18:21, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]