c. 1650 AD–c. 1800 AD
Atlantic circuits of enslavement, credit, and marine insurance
Trade & global routes · Esclavitud y trata · Crédito · Seguro marítimo · Coerción colonial
Atlantic slave-trading voyages were financed through credit, investors, ships, and insurance that could cover both the vessel and captive African people on board. This financial infrastructure was not impersonal exchange: it helped turn human lives into legally insurable claims and sustained capture, forced transport, and sale. Merchant ledgers chiefly show the perspectives of traders and insurers; they do not by themselves recover the experiences of enslaved people, whose resistance also shaped the voyages.
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- slaveryandremembrance.org (opens in a new tab)
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- 2026-09-23
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