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Visual_Ad5107 t1_j6fv4aj wrote

I'm not a historian but my impression is the Atlantic slave trade was heavily skewed towards transport to Brazil and the Caribbean with less than 10% being to America

Edit America being the US.

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Lumpy-Ad-2103 t1_j6gcir4 wrote

It’s less than 4%. Between 380 and 450,000 slaves were transported to the US. Over 12 million were transported from Africa with ~10.5 million surviving the journey.

Side note, more slaves died during the voyage across the Atlantic in the 300 years that route was active than were taken in the Barbary trade.

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