USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In the 17th and 18th centuries, enslaved Africans worked mainly on the tobacco, rice and indigo plantations of the southern coast, from the Chesapeake Bay colonies of Maryland and Virginia south to Georgia.

Detailed explanation-2: -The decade 1821 to 1830 saw more than 80, 000 people a year leaving Africa in slave ships. Well over a million more-one-tenth of those carried off in the slave trade era-followed within the next twenty years.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1840, the slave population reached its peak of nearly 59, 000 people; by 1860, there were 37, 000 enslaved people, just 63 percent as many slaves as two decades earlier.

Detailed explanation-4: -Between 1600 and 1800, approximately 300, 000 sailors engaged in the slave trade visited West Africa. In doing so, they came into contact with societies living along the west African coast and in the Americas which they had never previously encountered.