The transatlantic slave trade in the 16th-19th centuries
In all, more than 10 million slaves were taken from Africa between 1501 and 1866. Most of them went to the Americas-just not to the North, but to the South!
4.7 million slaves ended up in Brazil and about the same number in various Caribbean countries (the largest number in Jamaica, about a million). In the United States, during those almost four hundred years, "only" 389,000 people came directly from Africa. In Europe, by the way, only 9,000
