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Amazonia

136,000 destinationUnknown

791,000

Fr. Guiana

21,000

Dutch Guiana

260,000

British Guiana

75,000

CARIBBEAN

ISLANDS

4,021,000

MAINLAND

SOUTH AMERICA

3,763,000

MAINLAND

N. AMERICA

307,000

DEATHS

recorded

en route

1,309,000

Other islands

1,572,000

207,000

31,000

Other

East Coast

ports

Gulf Coast13,000 39,000

Pernambuco

430,000

Bahia

1,214,000

Southeast Brazil

1,389,000

Río de la Plata

92,000

935,000

151,000

83,000

21,000

695,000

26,000

29,000

764,000

Spanish

N. American

colonies

241,000

Bermuda

Puerto Rico

St. Thomas

Santa Catalina I.

Mobile,

Alabama

South

Carolina

Virginia

Maryland

UNITED STATES

(U.K.)

HAITI

Departed

between

Feb. 27 and

March 4, 1860

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Arrived
Grand Bay, Miss.
July 8, 1860;
towed to Ala.,
then scuttled
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Arrived
March 2, 1710;
ships scuttled
days latert
Storm
forces
course
change
MEXICO
GUAT.
EL SALVADOR
COSTA RICA
BELIZE
HOND.
NIC.
PANAMA COLOMBIA
GUYANA
SURINAME
VENEZUELA
BRAZIL
URUGUAY
ARG.
CUBA
DOM.
REP.
(U.S.)
JAMAICA
NORTH AMERICA
SOUTH
AMERICA
Caribbean
Sea
Gulf of Mexico
Cahuita Bay
A T L
A N T I C
O C E A N
CRUEL
COMMERCE
Spain first transported captive Africans to
the Americas in the early 1500s to replace
the dying Indigenous labor force in its
colonies. More than 36,000 slave voyages
had sailed for the Americas by 1866, when
the last recorded transatlantic slave ship
arrived in Cuba. About a thousand vessels
were lost at sea —several hundred with
Africans aboard. Only a few slave ships
that sank have ever been found.
1708-1710
Christianus Quintus, Fredericus Quartus
The crews of these two Danish frigates suppressed a
revolt and missed their destination of St. Thomas by
more than a thousand miles. Upon arrival in modern-day
Costa Rica, they mutinied, released some 650 captives
to save food, then scuttled the ships.
1860
Clotilda
The last ship known to import captive Africans
to the U.S.—a practice outlawed by the U.S. in
1808—was set ablaze to hide the crime. After
slavery was abolished, many of the 108 Clotilda
survivors formed a community, Africatown,
which still exists near Mobile, Alabama.