Slave Ship Horrors ; Maritime Tales by Stephen Guy From Merseyside Maritime Museum
Liverpool Echo › June 16, 2008
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LIVERPOOL'S slave ships carried their human cargoes from West Africa over the Atlantic to the Americas and Caribbean on journeys that took six weeks or more.
The Africans were held in atrocious and dehumanising conditions - violence, terror and degradation were everyday occurrences.See the full content of this document
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Slave Ship Horrors ; Maritime Tales by Stephen Guy From Merseyside Maritime Museum
They had already suffered terrible hardship before reaching the coast.
Sometimes the slaves were forced to march hundr...See the full content of this document
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