Ship technology, slavery, repatriation and air transportation: continuity and change

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, which occurred between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, displaced Africans people of African descent into New World. trade affected influenced several aspects world economy, boosting economies participating countries creating what would become diaspora. While elements have gained recognition in scholarship, ships, as single most important medium transportation for slaves, received little attention. We contribute to discourse by placing ships at center discussion highlighting relevance importance this human cargo carriage a vehicle slavery. also paid attention air era voluntary repatriation back Africa tourism, business pay homage motherland. achieved these objectives through use written sources. These included books, journal articles relevant sites databases relating history science, technology slavery among others. research highlights, others, following: invention has changed course history. It been tremendous responsible transporting millions Europe World Diaspora. sailing cruise period offered man opportunity navigate oceans seas that were hitherto uncharted. ensured relations solidified. Beginning XIV century when used rudders ran on shallow waters, was organized small scale countries. became significant date ship building there an improvement sea faring oceanic navigation. double-ended gave way full-rigged ships. An even greater milestone eighteenth steam invented. This produced fast less costly it greatly triangular had begun some two centuries earlier.