The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: Cuba

Overview: The previous posts for this blog took the reader through the impacts of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Spanish colonies in Cuba upon the lives of thousands of enslaved Africans, as well as their eventual emancipation. This blog… Continue Reading →

Overview: While the last two posts focused on how the slave trade impacted the lives of African captives and what enslaved Africans endured in the Cuban colonies, this post focuses on the abolition of slavery in Cuba and how it… Continue Reading →

Overview: While the previous post focused on how the slave trade from Africa through the Middle Passage affected the African captives marked for slavery aboard the Relâmpago; as all slave voyages did, this post focuses on the life that slaves… Continue Reading →

Overview: In order to begin to understand the lives of thousands of slaves that were victims of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, it is important to examine the voyage across the Middle Passage, as well as the colonial life that the… Continue Reading →