Posted on 06/29/2015 11:47:48 AM PDT by Lorianne
Usually, when we say “American slavery” or the “American slave trade,” we mean the American colonies or, later, the United States. But as we discussed in Episode 2 of Slate’s History of American Slavery Academy, relative to the entire slave trade, North America was a bit player. From the trade’s beginning in the 16th century to its conclusion in the 19th, slave merchants brought the vast majority of enslaved Africans to two places: the Caribbean and Brazil. Of the more than 10 million enslaved Africans to eventually reach the Western Hemisphere, just 388,747—less than 4 percent of the total—came to North America. This was dwarfed by the 1.3 million brought to Spanish Central America, the 4 million brought to British, French, Dutch, and Danish holdings in the Caribbean, and the 4.8 million brought to Brazil.
This interactive, designed and built by Slate’s Andrew Kahn, gives you a sense of the scale of the trans-Atlantic slave trade across time, as well as the flow of transport and eventual destinations. The dots—which represent individual slave ships—also correspond to the size of each voyage. The larger the dot, the more enslaved people on board. And if you pause the map and click on a dot, you’ll learn about the ship’s flag—was it British? Portuguese? French?—its origin point, its destination, and its history in the slave trade. The interactive animates more than 20,000 voyages cataloged in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. (We excluded voyages for which there is incomplete or vague information in the database.) The graph at the bottom accumulates statistics based on the raw data used in the interactive and, again, only represents a portion of the actual slave trade—about one-half of the number of enslaved Africans who actually were transported away from the continent.
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When deals were ‘brokered’ Muslims were there taking their cut off the top
or perhaps all of last century?
Meanwhile...100 million, 10 times the number of African slaves, were murdered by Marxist dictators and revolutionaries during the 20th Century. Plus, many of those slaves, however harsh, degrading and despicable their treatment, did get to live and even procreate. The victims of Karl’s book...not so much.
I need some clarification. This is claiming that a half million slaves were brought to the US. But if you look at the census records from 1860 there were almost 4 million slaves in the US. So were 3.5 million slaves born in the US between 1650 and 1860?
Not in the New world, it was Catholic mostly.
For some reason the muslims didn’t castrate our slaves like they did the ones destined for their own countries.
When did the British become Catholic?
Interesting Europe got a nice share of them, you sure hear about that as much as about the northern states having slaves.
(Gotta make a sound-bite, or the low-infos can't absorb it.)
*cough* democrats *cough*
Exactly, and they are the reason everything is messed up in this country today as well, yet NOTHING IS their fault.
Look at at the numbers.
No, that’s not correct. There were more than that born here over those years. Just trying to have a ckmplete understanding of the numbers.
I wouod think it would have been because they were requested not to.
It was entirely blacks (and Muslims) was it not? There were certainly white agents and brokers active in West Africa, but there were no colonies and no armed European forces kidnapping natives in the interior. The Europeans had the gold and silver.
In the intervening thirty years, however, 250,000 more slaves were imported to Trinidad and Tobago.
Slaves in the Caribbean were worked to death and then replaced. Conditions in most of North America were generally far better (except for the sugar plantations in Louisiana and rice plantations in South Carolina), which is why such a small number of imported slaves became a much larger number of native born slaves by 1860.
It would seem so.
I hear that narrative all the time. Have for years and years.
Slavery in the North effectively ended as a result of the Revolutionary War. Many free blacks in the north had been free for several generations. Their ancestors had been bought as slaves in Africa early in colonial history but were treated as bond servants/slaves like the whites whose debts/sentences were purchased. They had a specified period of servitude after which they were freed. After the Revolution many former slaves in the north were sent packing, in part because they were loyalists who went with the British.
Sad isn’t it. And people often forget that the slaves in the Caribbean were treated much much worse than those in America. The Caribbean slaves’ life expectancies were often only about 10 years or so.
More like barely over 3%, and as someone else mentioned, not just to the South.
NYC and Boston were big slave ports.
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