Slave trade

Danish ships brought approximately 111.000 enslaved Africans to the Caribbean. Denmark was the seventh largest slave-trading nation and together with the other nations 12,5 million enslaved Africans were traded for textiles, rum and weapons. From the Caribbean sugar, rum and cotton were send to Europe ( Dwis.dk, 2017).

Africans were brought to St. Croix in ships crammed with enslave people. On the brutal journey, many died or got heavily injured. The ones who survived would be “fixed” and made ready for auction. They would be smeared in palm oil and sold for the highest bid. When a plantation owner had bought a slave, he gave him a new name and brand him with his new registration letters on the chest. That applied to every slave (Mentze, 1981).

By utilizing the space on the ships to the extreme you could take 452 slaves in layers. http://www.dwis.dk/digitale-udstillinger/sofart-og-handel/ slavetransporter

The slave trade