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The Portuguese enslave Africans on their islands near West Africa. Some Africans are taken back to Portugal as slaves. https://www.britannica.com/summary/Transatlantic-Slave-Trade-Timeline
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The Spanish begin capturing Africans and taking them to the Caribbean islands as slaves. https://www.britannica.com/topic/transatlantic-slave-trade
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The Dutch participate heavily in capturing and enslaving Africans. https://www.britannica.com/topic/transatlantic-slave-trade
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By the 1690s, slave trade in Africa reached 30,000 Africans captured and traded per year https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teaching-resource/historical-context-facts-about-slave-trade-and-slavery#:~:text=The%20volume%20of%20slaves%20carried,leaving%20Africa%20in%20slave%20ships.
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Between 1720 and 1780, the majority of enslaved Africans were being brought to North America. This is more than the amount that were being transported to other countries. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teaching-resource/historical-context-facts-about-slave-trade-and-slavery#:~:text=The%20volume%20of%20slaves%20carried,leaving%20Africa%20in%20slave%20ships.
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in 1788, an act was established that regulated the conditions aboard British slave ships. This limited the number of slaves that were permitted to be transported on one ship. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teaching-resource/historical-context-facts-about-slave-trade-and-slavery#:~:text=The%20volume%20of%20slaves%20carried,leaving%20Africa%20in%20slave%20ships.
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In 1807, the British abolish their practice of engaging in slavery. https://www.southwales.ac.uk/courses/ma-history-by-research/3054/5-facts-you-probably-didnt-know-about-the-slave-trade/
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So many slaves were being transported into the U.S. that by the year 1825, one-fourth of all people were of African descent. Slaves were being captured, beaten, starved, transported, and forced into a lifetime of slavery by the hundreds. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teaching-resource/historical-context-facts-about-slave-trade-and-slavery#:~:text=The%20volume%20of%20slaves%20carried,leaving%20Africa%20in%20slave%20ships.
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By the time the world saw the year 1830, more than 80,000 Africans are captured and transported for slavery per year. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teaching-resource/historical-context-facts-about-slave-trade-and-slavery#:~:text=The%20volume%20of%20slaves%20carried,leaving%20Africa%20in%20slave%20ships.
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In 1858, the last known American slave ship set sail. Aboard a luxury yacht called The Wanderer, was a secret slave deck that held enslaved Africans. https://www.history.com/news/the-last-american-slave-ship
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Those aboard the slave ship The Clotilda are 389,000 of the last slaves to be taken from Africa and brought to America. The remains of this ship were discovered in Alabama in 2019. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/clotilda-the-last-american-slave-ship-found-in-alabama#:~:text=The%20schooner%20Clotilda%E2%80%94the%20last,yearlong%20search%20by%20marine%20archaeologists.
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Up until 1865, with the end of the Civil War and abolishment of slavery, the route from Africa to America through the Atlantic Ocean was called the Middle Passage. Packing hundreds of slaves of all ages and both genders, onto ships as tightly as possible was the norm. Conditions were horrible, and many slaves died from the brutality of the trip. Any slave who died was thrown overboard into the ocean. https://www.ushistory.org/us/6b.asp
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During the entire time that Africans were captured and forced into slavery, between 10-12 millions people experienced this tragedy. Even more were babies born to enslaved people and became slaves by birth. https://www.britannica.com/topic/transatlantic-slave-trade
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The last known slave ship to sail across the ocean transporting slaves occurred in 1866. This ship transported enslaved Africans from Africa to Cuba. https://www.southwales.ac.uk/courses/ma-history-by-research/3054/5-facts-you-probably-didnt-know-about-the-slave-trade/
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