Africa, the arrival of Europeans and the transatlantic slave trade

Sailor death rates

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The historian Alan Rice talks about the death rates among sailors on the slaving ships as part of the process of capturing and transporting enslaved Africans to transport them across the Atlantic.

'Slavery: What's it got to do with us?' event. Filmed at Gallery Oldham on 29 March 2008.