A lot!!
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Middle Passage
1500s
If we disregard issues of human rights or morality, the slave trade was very profitable.
The Trans Atlantic slave trade went on between the 16th and 19th centuries. An estimated 12-15 million people were forced to migrate from Africa to the Western hemisphere during this time. The slaves were sold as laborers on plantations as well as domestic servants.
There are no verifiable statistics regarding the survival rates of slaves from Africa to any part of the Western Hemisphere. This applies to any part of the hemisphere as well.
Africans from West Africa were taken to the Western Hemisphere and sold as slaves to the European colonists.
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Africans came to the western hemisphere not as slaves at first. They came as indentured servants. However, it was believed to be 1619 when the Africans were brought as slaves from the western part of Africa.
Middle Passage
Middle Passage
Roughly 10.7 million slaves survived the Middle Passage.
1500s
The creation of the first independent republic in the Americas populated primarily by former slaves.
Although the slavery was officially abolished, in practice, it wasn't. However, slaves started to protest for their rights.
If we disregard issues of human rights or morality, the slave trade was very profitable.
about 10 or 11 million survived the middle passage.