Transatlantic Slave Trade Routes, 16th-19th Centuries

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A map showing the routes of ships bringing African slaves to South America, the Caribbean, and North America. These slave traders transported roughly 12 million enslaved Africans, mainly purchased from local West African leaders, across the Atlantic from the 16th to the 19th century. The major Atlantic slave trading nations, ordered by trade volume, were: the Portuguese, the British, the French, the Spanish, and the Dutch Empires.

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