The History of the
International Slave
Trade
1860 Slave Statistics In the United States
31,443,321 Americans / 3,953,761 are slaves (12.5%)
27,489,560 Free of which 488,000 are Blacks (12% of ttl. Black pop)
1 in 70 Americans owned slaves – or 1.5 of the American free population
4.8 percent of Southerners owned one or more slaves
1860 US Census: 393,975 named persons held 3,950,546 unnamed slaves, a
mathematical average of about ten slaves per holder. most actually held
only one or two slaves.
Owners of 200 or more slaves = less than 1% of all slaveholders (fewer
than 4,000 persons)
1 in 7,000 free persons (0.015% population) held an estimated 20–30% of
all slaves (800,000 to 1,200,000 slaves). |
Atlantic Slave Trade 1520-1870
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1520 - 1870:
40,000
slave shipments between Africa and the Western Hemisphere
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11
million African slaves transported of which 9.5 million survived the
voyage.
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Approximately
15 percent of slaves die – 15 percent of European crews die as well
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361,000
(3.8 percent) to mainland North America - primarily Virginia and
Carolinas
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4
million were transported to Brazil (by Portugal);
2.5 million to the Spanish Empire including Cuba (by Spain);
2 million to the British West Indies, Barbados and Jamaica (by
Britain);
1.2 million to the French West Indies
(by France);
remaining to Dutch East Indies and Europe (by Netherlands, Danes,
Swedes, and others)
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Link:
slave
trade maps
St. Paul
(Ephesians
6:5) “...be obedient to them that are your masters according to the
flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ.”
Servus
St.
Mathilde
(St. Matilda)
Ashanti
Confederacy
Timbuktu
King Tegbesu of Dahomey
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1710
European slave traders paid £17 pounds per slave ($2,700 today)
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1760 £20 pounds ($3,200)
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Slaves
sold for £28 – £35 (
$4,480 - $5,600) in Virginia 1700-1750
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Captain
John Hawkins 1562
Royal
African Company (RAC)
Slave
Code
South
Seas Company
Bence
Island (Bunce Island)
Slaves
transported into the Thirteen Colonies (primarily Virginia and the
Carolinas)
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Quakers (Religious
Society of Friends)
Enlightenment
Justinian
Code (Justinian's Institutes)
Sir William
Blackstone
Commentaries
on the Laws of England (1765-1769)
Granville Sharp
Habeas Corpus Act 1679
Jonathan Strong
Case
Continental Congress (1774)
slave boycott
Abolition of the Slave Trade Act (1807)
Slavery
Abolition Act (1833)
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