The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes

[packman]

An interactive map showing the slave trade over 315 years - basically the emptying of a continent. 12.5 million slaves on ships to the New World and other ports over 3 centuries while another 2 million died in transit.

"...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."

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_slavery/2015/06/animated_interactive_of_the_history_of_the_atlantic_slave_trade.html

[philosslayer]

1. Fascinating

Thanks for posting!

[packman]

2. This video has to go with my original posting

[malaise]

3. Thanks for this - get thee to the greatest page

Rec

[appalachiablue]

4. K & R. Excellent. The colonial era Atlantic slavocracy and trade for 300+ years was

much wider than most people in the US realize, and not limited to the British and US. As you say, beyond North America, the colonial slave trade and practice of of slavery by Portugal, Spain, Holland, France and Denmark was major in the Caribbean and South America.

In Brazil under Emperor Dom Pedro III slavery lasted into the 1860s and beyond. After the Civil War he invited southerners who lost their land or didn't want to live under an occupying army to settle and grow cotton in Brazil by offering them travel subsidies, land and tax credits. Descendants of the Confederate expats still live in a small region in Brazil today.