1. No category

TABLE 20.1
Slave Exports from Africa, 1500-1900 (in !:housands)
Red Sea
Trans-Sahara
East Africa and
Indian Ocean
Trans·Atlanric
So~rc(:
1500 1600 (%)
1600-1700 (%)
1700-1800 (%)
1800tl900 (%)
2 00 (17 )
550 (47 )
100 (9)
200 (7)
700 (24 )
100 (4 )
200 (3)
700 (9)
400 (5)
4g0 (8)
I
12QO (22 )
442 (8 )
1050 (6)
3150 (19 )
1042 (6)
325 (28 )
1868 (65 )
6133(83 )
3330 (61)
11 ,656 (69 )
16,898
Totol
Adopted (rom POll! Lovejoy, Tmnsformatiun.i in Slavtry: A H i"o;-y ofSlavay i" Africa (1983) .
V.
STATISTICAL EXERCISES
A. Table 2Q.1: Slave Exports from Africa, 1500 - 1900 (Page
)
1. What different slave trades existed? (Think geographic .By about the origins of
slaves and their destinations)
2. Which region exported the largest number of slaves?
3. When were the most slaves exported?
4. Between 1800 - 1900, why would the number ofslaves,crossing the Atlantic
decline?
)
B. Table 20.2: Destinations ofAfrican Slaves (Page
1. What regions received the most slaves? The least?
2. Why would the Caribbean and Brazil need such large nl.Jmbers?
3. In British North America, what colonies would have rec;eived slaves?
4 . Today, where would African influences and cultures be the greatest? Why?
TABLE 20.2
Destinations of African Slaves
in the Atlantic Slave Trade
Thousonds
British Norrh America
Spanish America
British Caribbean
French Caribbean
Dutch Caribbean
Danish Caribbean
Brazil
Old World
523
1687
2443
1655
500
50
4190
297
11,345
Percentage
5
15
21
15
4
0.4
37
2 .6
So>tru: James R.1W!c y, Thc Transatla",ic Slave Trade (1981), 428 .