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Overview of the slave trade out of Africa (1500-1900) (i.imgur.com)
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Source: https://www.slavevoyages.org/blog/overview-slave-trade-out-africa

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Does this mean the majority of African-Americans are in South America?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Pretty much. Brazil is a huge hodgepodge of different ethnicities from all continents, more so than any other country in America, and its black population traces it's roots to the slave trade.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

According to Wikipedia, of the 12-12.8 million African slaves shipped to the new world, about 5.5 million went to Brazil. In comparison, the US received about 388,000.

That's interesting, I knew there were a lot of slaves outside of the US but I've always heard so much about US slaves that I thought they would be a significant portion of the slave trade.

Sources: wikipedia and PBS

Edit: here's a good interactive map on it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Wouldn’t have thought that the numbers would be that different though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

And yet the US is seen as the country built on slave labor...