SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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100, 000
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200, 000
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300, 000
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400, 000
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Detailed explanation-1: -By 1625, more than 325, 800 Africans had been shipped to the New World, though many thousands perished during the voyage. An astonishing number, some four million, were transported to the Caribbean between 1501 and 1830.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -1750: White slaveowners live in cities like Charleston or Savannah; the majority of the 40, 000 slaves live on plantations.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.