New England was the epicenter of the slave trade industry for the entire western hemisphere - not just North America
Not really:
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.
Country total voyages % of slave voyages
Portugal 35,994 61.6 %
Britain 12,010 20.5 %
France 4,199 7.2 %
USA 2,268 3.9 %
Spain 1,893 3.2 %
Holland 1704 2.9 %
Denmark 411 .7 %
Total 58,449 100 %
The website estimates that the database represents about 80 % of the total slave trade voyages from 1514 to 1866.
Looking at the country’s ships transporting slaves and the destination of the voyage shows the most of the slave voyages were ships of a specific country bound for the colonies of that country in the Western Hemisphere. As an example, most, but no all, Portugal’s slave voyages ended in Portuguese Brazil. Most, but not all, Britain’s slave voyages went to British colonies in the Caribbean. American slave ships transported mostly to the United States, and after 1808, to Cuba.
Not really:
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.
Country total voyages % of slave voyages
Portugal 35,994 61.6 %
Britain 12,010 20.5 %
France 4,199 7.2 %
USA 2,268 3.9 %
Spain 1,893 3.2 %
Holland 1704 2.9 %
Denmark 411 .7 %
Total 58,449 100 %
The website estimates that the database represents about 80 % of the total slave trade voyages from 1514 to 1866.
Looking at the country’s ships transporting slaves and the destination of the voyage shows the most of the slave voyages were ships of a specific country bound for the colonies of that country in the Western Hemisphere. As an example, most, but no all, Portugal’s slave voyages ended in Portuguese Brazil. Most, but not all, Britain’s slave voyages went to British colonies in the Caribbean. American slave ships transported mostly to the United States, and after 1808, to Cuba.
Yes really. The database cites all-time slave voyages. There was a lot of slave trading and slave voyages made prior to the late 18th century by various European countries. That dropped off and was almost entirely eliminated by the late 18th century at the latest by the Royal Navy. The US meanwhile refused to allow the Royal Navy to board their vessels and New England slave traders kept right on trading in slaves on a very large scale.
There were even agents of various New England shippers on board other countries vessels who upon sight of a British Warship would furnish a contract for the captain to sign that would sell his vessel and its slave cargo to the New England shipping company at a reduced rate. As soon as the contract was signed, the stars and stripes the New England shipping agent brought on board would be hauled up and the slave ship could no longer be boarded or inspected.
They went into this in detail in Conspiracy: How the North Promoted, Prolonged and Profited from Slavery. You should read it some time.