Between the 1400s and 1800s, 1215 million men, women and children were forcibly transported from Africa to the Americas.

They were enslaved and forced to work in dreadful conditions on hugely profitable plantations. Britain and other countries grew wealthy on this trade in people and the goods they were forced to produce.

The National Maritime Museum's Caird Library includes documents, records, manuscripts, books, pamphlets and photographs that together help us understand the history and legacies of transatlantic slavery.

As part of Slavery Remembrance Day, join historian S.I. Martin as he examines these documents.

Here he looks at advertisements from the Jamaica Mercury & Kingston Weekly Advertiser from 1779, which help to tell us more about people who escaped enslavement.

Read these documents:
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Find out more about Slavery Remembrance Day: https://www.rmg.co.uk/slaveryremembance

Music: Quiescent In Time by Shane Ivers https://www.silvermansound.com



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