USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -By 1625, more than 325, 800 Africans had been shipped to the New World, though many thousands perished during the voyage. An astonishing number, some four million, were transported to the Caribbean between 1501 and 1830.

Detailed explanation-2: -Typical slave ships contained several hundred slaves with about 30 crew members. The male captives were normally chained together in pairs to save space; right leg to the next man’s left leg-while the women and children may have had somewhat more room.

Detailed explanation-3: -The median slaving vessel measured 86 feet long and 24 feet wide, with a between-deck height of 5 feet, 2 inches. The Brooks, by contrast, had a deck height of 5 feet, 6 inches, and measured 99 feet, 8 inches, in length, by 26 feet, 7 inches, in width.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the 1780s, British-built ships typically carried 1.75 slaves per ton of the ship’s capacity; on the Zong, the ratio was 4.0 per ton. A British slave ship of the period would carry around 193 enslaved people and it was extremely unusual for a ship of Zong’s relatively small size to carry so many.