[DiogenesLamp]

They did for a long time, but eventually it was mostly the Yankee ships carrying the slaves.

They carried them to the Caribbean and to South America. Sugar was big business back then.

[Bull Snipe]

” but eventually it was mostly the Yankee ships carrying the slaves.”
The following information is from the “Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database”. This database can be found at www.slavevoyages.org
The country listed below is the flag of the ship transporting slaves and the number of documented voyages under that flag.
Country total voyages
Portugal 35,994,
Britain 12,010
France 4,199
USA 2,268
Spain 1,893
Holland 1,704
Denmark 411
Total 58,449

American flagged ships carried about 3.9% of the slaves shipped from Africa to the Western Hemisphere.