Here is an interesting factoid:
Between 1795 and 1805, more than 100,000 Africans were sent to America on 934 Rhode Island owned and based vessels.
Isn't it amazing that people fall out of their chairs when they find out the Yankees had slaves too?!
....Between 1795 and 1805, more than 100,000 Africans were sent to America on 934 Rhode Island owned and based vessels.....
It's gotta be a hell of alot more than 100,000. John Brown (who gave part of his slave trading fortune to found what became Brown University) was one of the premier slave traders, with a large fleet of slavers, over many decades.
934 ships with 100,000 is only an average of 107 per ship, hardly worth making the extra leg in the triangle trade.