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Overview of the slave trade out of Africa (1500-1900) (i.imgur.com)
submitted 4 months ago by spiritedpause to c/[email protected]
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Source: https://www.slavevoyages.org/blog/overview-slave-trade-out-africa

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

Since the width of the lines is supposed to represent the number of people brought over, I was trying to figure out why the line to North America got thinner - were the authors trying to minimize traffic to North America? And then I realized that it got thinner because so many people died on the journey over.