WORLD HISTORY

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: -Between 1450 and 1850 at least 12 million Africans were taken across the notorious Middle Passage of the Atlantic-‐ mainly to colonies in North America, South America, and the West Indies. The Middle Passage was integral to a larger pattern of commerce developed by European countries.

Detailed explanation-3: -Between 1500 and 1866, Europeans transported to the Americas nearly 12.5 million enslaved Africans, about 1.8 million of whom died on the Middle Passage of the transatlantic slave trade.

Detailed explanation-4: -From the 1500s to the 1800s, merchants transported approximately 12 million Africans across the Atlantic as human property.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.