WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In the 360 years between 1500 and the end of the slave trade in the 1860s, at least 12 million Africans were forcibly taken to the Americas-then known as the “New World” to European settlers. This largest forced migration in human history relocated some 50 ethnic and linguistic groups.

Detailed explanation-2: -Though it is impossible to give accurate figures, some historians have estimated that 6 to 7 million enslaved people were imported to the New World during the 18th century alone, depriving the African continent of some of its healthiest and ablest men and women.

Detailed explanation-3: -The arrival of the first captives to the Jamestown Colony, in 1619, is often seen as the beginning of slavery in America-but enslaved Africans arrived in North America as early as the 1500s.

Detailed explanation-4: -On a whole, over the 300 years of the Transatlantic slave trade, 29 per cent of all Africans arriving in the New World disembarked at British American ports, 41 per cent disembarked in Brazil.