Port
Negros
# of ships
Average/ship
Africa (Calabar)
5
Congo
1
Gambia and Gold Coast
3
Gambia and Grain Coast
2
Angola
14
Gambia
7
Coast of Guinea
1
Windward and Gold Coast
4
Sierra Leone
1
Windward Coast
1
Senegal
2
Windward and Rice Coast
1
Windward and Grain Coast
1
Gambia and Windward Coast
1
Gold Coast
2
Grain and Gold Coast
1
Totals
10506
47
Mean average per port
Weighted mean average per ship
Based upon the article "Shipboard Revolts, African Authority, and the Atlantic Slave Trade," by David Richardson and Stephen Behrendt's article "Markets, Transaction Cycles, and Profits: Merchant Decision Making in the British Slave Trade" one could possibly account for the range of slaves per ship and the variations between ports. The slave trade was a business dependent upon the matching of supply and demand in several industries. The ability to secure a vessel, sailors,...
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