Slavery and the Atlantic (Exercise 7)

This is a map showing the path of slave ships across the U.S., Europe, and Africa while also indicating hurricane pathways at the time. The Atlantic Ocean acted as a permeable barrier between the slave ships and their destinations. The map data shows that the hurricanes also acted as a barrier as no ships would cross the hurricane paths at the times of the hurricanes. The data also shows that the highest volume of slave deaths was not out on sea, but at the drop-off ports. This could be because of their bodies giving into the shock of the long journey, starvation/ dehydration, or the introduction to new diseases that were not found in their country of origin.