![]() But one thing did stand out: The more women onboard a slave ship, the more likely a revolt. ![]() So why would a revolt happen on one ship and not another? The quantitative historians couldn't find a clear pattern, other than that captives tried to revolt whenever they would. This type of resistance was so expensive and time-consuming for the slavers, these historians estimate that it prevented at least a million more people from being captured and entering the slave trade. Nonetheless, many captives chose death over this exceptionally horrid new kind of slavery. ![]() Revolts were never easy, but revolts on slave ships in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean were basically suicide missions. That was a much higher number than anyone expected. They found that there was a revolt on at least one in ten of these voyages. “Quantitative historians who use statistical tools to study big-picture historical trends, created a vast database of research on more than 36,000 slave ship voyages that took place over four hundred years. ![]()
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