For nearly 400 years, slaving ships crossed the Atlantic, trading goods and human cargo via a triangular route known as the transatlantic slave trade. From the late 15th century until the late 19th century, ships transported cargo such as textiles, iron, firearms, and gunpowder from Europe to Africa’s western coast. After their arrival in Africa, mariners traded these goods for captured Africans from the interior. Most enslaved Africans were taken from regions along the continent’s western coast: Senegambia, Sierra Leone, the Windward and Gold Coast, the Bight of Benin and Biafra, and West Central Africa. Then, the second leg of the triangular voyage started, in which enslaved Africans were abducted to the Americas, where they were sold or exchanged for colonial goods, such as sugar or tobacco, that were carried back to Europe, where this triangular journey started anew. Roughly twelve million enslaved Africans were transported onboard slave vessels. Every African who ended up enslaved in the Americas had to endure the weekslong gruesome journey onboard a slaving ship. During the Slave Trade era, approximately 13 percent of African captives who embarked on a slave ship did not reach their destination and fell victim to the horrors onboard. The slave trade, a primarily economic endeavour, was enabled by a fleet of slave ships, and more than twelve million captured Africans spent weeks onboard one of those ships crossing the Atlantic. The violent passage left captives physically and psychologically traumatised. Therefore, it is crucial to examine the nature of slaving ships.