Slave Trade 1. Dimensions and Origins Why Africa? Impact on Africa Slavery and the World Forced labor and plantations Change in the Caribbean Trade networks Profits
Number of Slaves Brought to the New World 1451-1600 275,000 1600-1700 1,341,000 (sugar cane in the Caribbean) 1700-1800 6 million (sugar cane in the Caribbean and cotton and tobacco in USA 1807 Abolition of slave trade by Britain 1800-1870 2 million
Middle Passage
Slave ships
Population (millions) 1650 1750 1850 1900 Africa 100 120 Europe 103 144 274 423 Asia 257 457 656 857
Triangular Trade
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