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- "Mr. Beckett, did you know you can smell a slaver coming for miles, if the wind is right, on the open sea?"
"Can you?"
"Yes. The stench is enough to put a sailor off his burgoo for a whole day." - ―Jack Sparrow and Cutler Beckett
Slave ships, also often called slavers, were large cargo ships used for transporting slaves. Such ships were used for the trade involved human trafficking from Africa to the Americas. Some of them were specially built for the purpose, while other were converted to carry slaves.
History
- "I don't care where you go after you're off, but get off. Swim to the 'royal pains' back there, swim to the East India Trading Company slave ships, swim over to Teague and sail off into the sunset together. I don't care where the devil you go. Just go. Now."
- ―Jack Sparrow to Fitzwilliam P. Dalton III
Only a few decades after the discovery of America by Europeans, demand for cheap labor to work plantations made slave-trading a profitable business. The peak time of slave ships to the Atlantic passage was between the 17th and 18th century, when large plantations developed in the European colonies of the West Indies. The most significant routes of the slave ships led from the north-western and western coasts of Africa to South America and the south-east coast of North America and the Caribbean.[citation needed]
After Fitzwilliam P. Dalton III revealed his betrayal to young Jack Sparrow, Jack suggested to Fitzwilliam to swim to East India Trading Company slave ships.[1]
Notable slave ships
Behind the scenes
Slave ships were first mentioned and identified in Rob Kidd's 2007 book Jack Sparrow: Sins of the Father.[1] A. C. Crispin's 2011 novel The Price of Freedom featured the first appearance of slave ships, also identified as "slavers", including the merchant vessel Wicked Wench.[2]
Appearances
- Jack Sparrow: Sins of the Father (First mentioned) (First identified as slave ships)
- The Price of Freedom (First appearance) (First identified as slavers)
- Legends of the Brethren Court: Wild Waters (Mentioned only)
