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The Rise of the African Slave Trade
The African Slave Trade
This map shows the routes that were used in the course of the slave trade and the number of enslaved people who traveled each route. As the figures indicate, most African slaves were bound for Brazil and the Caribbean. While West Africans made up the vast majority of the enslaved, the east coast of Africa, too, supplied slaves for the trade.
According to the map, 8 million slaves travelled from West Central Africa to Brazil, 8 million slaves travelled from West Central Africa to Barbados, 4 million slaves travelled from the Swahili Coast to Arabia, 2 million slaves travelled from West Africa to Morocco, 2 million slaves travelled from West Africa to Tunisia, 2 million slaves travelled from West Africa to Libya, and 2 million slaves travelled from West Africa to Egypt.
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