LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
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100, 000
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50, 000
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200, 000
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600, 000
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Detailed explanation-1: -Britain was the most dominant between 1640 and 1807 and it is estimated that Britain transported 3.1 million Africans (of whom 2.7 million arrived) to the British colonies in the Caribbean, North and South America and to other countries.
Detailed explanation-2: -By 1700 there were 27, 817 enslaved Africans in British North America. In 1740, there were 150, 024. By 1770, the number of slaves had grown to 462, 000, about one-fifth of the total colonial population.
Detailed explanation-3: -For more than two centuries, French settlements in Africa and the Americas relied on enslaved laborers to produce colonial commodities and perform domestic service. Between the 1620s and the 1840s, more than one million Africans-and thousands of Amerindians-lived as slaves in France’s American colonies.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the winter, slaves toiled for around eight hours each day, while in the summer the workday might have been as long as fourteen hours. Sunday was a day off for everyone at Mount Vernon, both free persons and slaves.