May 3, 2016 · Explores the 400-year era of the transatlantic slave trade, when millions of Africans were kidnapped and shipped to the Americas.

Aug 23, 2022 · This chart shows the number of Africans forced to leave the continent in the slave trade, by region.

Feb 3, 2025 · From the 15th to the 19th centuries, more than 12 million Africans were enslaved and sent to the Americas and Europe. Combining dental records with a map of strontium ratios across sub-Saharan...

A map of the slave trade in Africa that shows the regions of most intense activity. An excerpt from a 1788 account describing the capture and kidnapping of Africans as part of the slave trade. A photograph of Goree Island off the West African coast, where captured slaves were put on ships bound for the Americas.

Slave relationships in Africa have been transformed through four large-scale processes: the trans-Saharan slave trade, the Indian Ocean slave trade, the Atlantic slave trade, and the slave emancipation policies and movements in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Jul 16, 2017 · The 3% of slaves that were part of the Atlantic Slave Trade were transported from Africa to the US and came from the West Coast of Africa, which is modern-day Senegal, Sierra Leone, the Ivory Coast, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, and Equatorial Guinea.

Feb 8, 2024 · Below is a list of some of the 10 African Nations where most of the African Slaves came from during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The Mbundu people from Angola were amongst the most enslaved Africans according to the Atlas Of The Transatlantic Slave Trade with most being transported to Brazil.

Mar 31, 2022 · Using data from shipping records and documented instances of conflict, researchers created an interactive map that estimates where individuals may have been captured and enslaved given their port of departure.

4 days ago · So far, researchers have used the map to estimate where enslaved people buried in Charleston, South Carolina, and Brazil came from with higher resolution than ever before.

Nov 11, 2014 · This map highlights the idea that the slave trade was predominantly a trans-American movement that was instilled across the entire continent . Some of the most important parts of this map are the bits that are not actually shown on the map—the things left out, or the silences of the map.