Information is provided on the three routes of the triangular slave trade: the middle passage, the outward passage, and the return passage.

Easy-to-read, colorful maps that show the triangular slave trade routes from 1451 to 1870.

Read Olaudah Equiano's account of being captured in his village in Africa, and placed on a slave ship to be taken to America. He describes the middle passage of the triangular trade route, as well as the leg from Europe to Africa. [pdf]

This site is provided for by PBS. In order to receive insurance money, a captain ordered 132 slaves thrown overboard alive. The case went to court, and a landmark decision was made that the Africans on the ship were actually people.