After analyzing the Voyages database for information about Trans-Atlantic slave ship owners, I found David Hamilton owned multiple vessels that embarked on a total of 17 voyages.[1] Over the course of researching for answers about the slave ships I examined the civilizations involved in Trans-Atlantic slave trade through multiple categories such as race, class, gender and ethnicity. I learned the Igboland communities left behind were faced with slavery in another form. Amadi (freeborn) and Ohu (el-slaves) cultures practiced a caste system that left the Amadi dominate over the Ohu. Class status left the Ohu struggling from the injustices of exclusion for hundreds of years. Consequently, Ohu suffer from the effects of modern-day slavery to this day.[2] As I research more about the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, I find there is so much to learn about all aspects of the global effects of slavery.
[1] “Voyages”, The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 2016,www.slavevoyages.org.
[2] Apeh, Apex A., and Chukwuma C. Opata. 2009. “Social Exclusion: An Aftermath of the Abolition of Slave Trade in Northern Igboland, Nigeria”. The William and Mary Quarterly 66 (4). Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture: 939–58. http://www.jstor.org.butte.idm.oclc.org/stable/40467548.
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