The beginning of the Atlantic Slave Trade - a request for suggestions

[frogmarch]

1. I don't know the origins, but

St. Helena island in the south Atlantic has been in the news fairly recently for the discovery of many slave graves. St. Helena is the only remaining British colony. It was to St. Helena that Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled, and where he died.

Ancestors of mine were planters (plantation owners) on St. Helena in the 1600s and had slaves. In later years, when Britain outlawed slavery, slaves removed from slave ships in the south Atlantic were taken to St. Helena and held in encampments. If a “rescued” slave could say where his or her home was, he or she might eventually be taken home, but most of them lived out their lives on St. Helena.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/08/slave-mass-graves-st-helena-island