USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Caribbean was at the core of the crime against humanity induced by the transatlantic slave trade and slavery. Some 40 per cent of enslaved Africans were shipped to the Caribbean Islands, which, in the seventeenth century, surpassed Portuguese Brazil as the principal market for enslaved labour.

Detailed explanation-2: -Some 5 million enslaved Africans were taken to the Caribbean, almost half of whom were brought to the British Caribbean (2.3 million). As planters became more reliant on enslaved workers, the populations of the Caribbean colonies changed, so that people born in Africa, or their descendants, came to form the majority.

Detailed explanation-3: -Except for a fifty-year period between 1676 and 1725, West Central Africa sent more slaves to the Americas than any other region. In the first century of trading over 900, 000 (52%) of all Africans leaving the continent came from West Central Africa.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -In 1778, Thomas Kitchin estimated that Europeans were bringing an estimated 52, 000 slaves to the Caribbean yearly, with the French bringing the most Africans to the French West Indies (13, 000 out of the yearly estimate).