Die transatlantische Sklavenhandelskarte

I’ve always found it interesting how slaves were also brought to the European continent.

Do we have a number of the amount of native going back east as part of the slave trade? I know at one point, south Carolina exported more slaves than it imported.

I’m not stirring the pot or anything, but I’m just curious.

Who were the traders ? Who were the ship owners ?

This map needs to be shared periodically, to inform the world that ***the US represented about 3-5% of the total African slave trade.***

As someone else in this thread said, this is not to be an apologist because there’s no doubt that slavery was and is wrong and cruel.

I would like to see arrows within Africa for the flow of enslaved peoples before being sent off the continent

Where are the maps for the inter-African slave trade, the North African slave trade, the Indian, Chinese and all of the other slave trades?

Hideous all around but sugar plantation “work” seems to be an even worse hell

There’s too much focus on this slave trade. We all know it. The middle Eastern slave trade was huge and nobody knows it.

There were a lot of folks that died on their way to the African coast with what I expect would be an even larger number perishing mid-Atlantic. Anyone know total number of deaths due to the slave trade?

What happened to the slaves taken to Europe?

Edit: TIL from Gemini:

Unlike the United States or the Caribbean, where distinct, large-scale Afro-descendant communities remained segregated and easily identifiable for centuries, the African diaspora in early modern Europe **predominantly blended into the general population** over generations. 

Because the influx of African women to Europe was significantly lower than that of African men, the vast majority of Black residents married white Europeans. Over multiple generations of interracial marriage, their descendants became phenotypically indistinguishable from the rest of the European populace. 

Consequently, millions of modern-day Europeans—particularly in Portugal, Spain, and the UK—unknowingly carry African ancestry dating back to the transatlantic era.

Why not Mexico??

At the same time, this was going on:

[Trans-Saharan slave trade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Saharan_slave_trade)

>The trans-Saharan slave trade was a Muslim slave trade across the Sahara, from the 7th century until the early-to-mid-20th century. Slaves, primarily from sub-Saharan Africa, were sold throughout the coastal Maghreb, Egypt, the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, and regions of West Asia.[1][2][3]

[Map](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Saharan_slave_trade#/media/File:African_slave_trade.png)

Meanwhile, nobody seems to talk about the Trans-Saharan, Red Sea, and Indian Ocean slave trades. They happened from around 650 to 1900, and historians estimate 10–18 million people were taken as slaves. Honestly, it was probably more than that because records from that period aren’t nearly as complete. A lot of it involved Arab/Islamic traders, along with local African kingdoms and other groups. This doesn’t even include the wars happening inside Africa, where kingdoms and tribes wiped each other out and sold prisoners of war into slavery. Slavery wasn’t just one group doing it to another—it was a horrible system that involved a lot of different people and civilizations. The West definitely made slavery far more systematic and efficient with the trans-Atlantic slave trade. That part is undeniable. But people also forget that it was Western abolitionist movements and governments that eventually led the global effort to end the Atlantic slave trade and push slavery toward abolition. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia didn’t abolish slavery until 1962, and Oman until 1970. And it’s not like slavery is just history. According to recent estimates, around 50 million people are still living in some form of modern slavery. About 27.6 million are in forced labor, 22 million are in forced marriages, and 6.3 million are victims of sexual exploitation. The highest numbers are estimated to be in India, China, North Korea, Pakistan, and Russia. Millions of migrant workers are also still living and working in terrible conditions in parts of the Gulf, with some cases meeting the definition of forced labor.

I’m not saying the trans-Atlantic slave trade shouldn’t be talked about—it absolutely should. I’m saying why does the conversation almost always stop there? Human slavery has been practiced by almost every civilization at some point, and even today tens of millions of people are still trapped in it. Yet most people either don’t know, don’t care, or simply don’t talk about the rest of it.

Are any modern companies descendants of companies from 500 years ago that were involved in the slave trade? Are there any families whose wealth was originally derived from the slave trade and has persisted until today?

Who was doing the selling?

When you look at how few slaves went to the us, compared to how many they had when slavery was abolished (about 4 million) you see how they exploited families for generations and generations.

There were 4million slaves alive in the US in 1860. 10 millions slaves in total throughout USA history (including prior to 1776). America was just able to keep their slaves alive better than Brazil and had them have offspring.

The trans Atlantic slave trade is not the only way they added the the slave population in America. People use maps like this to try and make it seems like America did not have as big of a slavery problem (as seen in this comment section). But it definitely did!

I’m confused where did all the black people in cuba go?