SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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20, 000-50, 000
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300, 000-800, 0000
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2 million-5 million
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9 million-12 million
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Detailed explanation-1: -Current estimates are that about 12 million to 12.8 million Africans were shipped across the Atlantic over a span of 400 years.
Detailed explanation-2: -By 1619, more than a century and a half after the Portuguese first traded slaves on the African coast, European ships had brought a million Africans to colonies and plantations in the Americas and force them to labor as slaves.
Detailed explanation-3: -Between 1525 and 1866, in the entire history of the slave trade to the New World, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World. 10.7 million survived the dreaded Middle Passage, disembarking in North America, the Caribbean and South America.
Detailed explanation-4: -At least 12 million Africans were taken to the Americas as slaves between 1532 and 1832 and at least a third of them in British ships.
Detailed explanation-5: -TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE VOYAGES Over the period of the Atlantic Slave Trade, from approximately 1526 to 1867, some 12.5 million captured men, women, and children were put on ships in Africa, and 10.7 million arrived in the Americas.