This early etching shows Africans being chained on board a slave ship.

The slave trade triangular route

A poster advertising a slave sale.

Sir John Hawkins was a successful English slave-trader in the sixteenth century. He designed this

crest for himself.

This diagram shows how the slaves would be packed tightly below the decks of a slave ship. The large

section on the right contains 124 men slaves, the next 58 boys, the next section has 83 women and the small room in the stern has 27 young girls. Sometimes they would be taken up in batches to exercise and get some

fresh air on deck.

The main peoples who were used as slaves

The slave trade did great damage to the way of life of many African tribes. It also poisoned relations between black and

white people.