LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
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1 million
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100
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2 million
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300
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Detailed explanation-1: -We now believe that as many as 1, 506, 000 enslaved Africans arrived in the Spanish Americas directly from Africa between 1520 and 1867.
Detailed explanation-2: -Slaves from Africa were considered the means to satisfy the demand for labour to develop new lands. The Mexican government that between 1521 and 1594 approximately 36, 500 African slaves were brought into its shores.
Detailed explanation-3: -Around 12 million Africans were enslaved in the course of the transatlantic slave trade. Between 1640 and 1807, British ships transported about 3.4 million Africans across the Atlantic.
Detailed explanation-4: -Slavery in the South South Carolina, North Carolina, and Maryland each had over 100, 000 slaves. After the American Revolution, the Southern slave population exploded, reaching about 1.1 million in 1810 and over 3.9 million in 1860. Source: Historical Statistics of the U.S. (1970).
Detailed explanation-5: -Taxes paid by slave merchants in Spain suggest that an average of about 1, 200 African captives were transported to the Americas each year from the mid-1540s to 1580, though the actual numbers may have been considerably higher.