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Southeast

Africa

409,000

Other^ Af

rica

2 ,^302 ,^00

0

Bight of Biafra

Gold Coast 1,117,000

745,000

Windward

Coast

202,000

Sierra

Leone

246,000

Returned to Africa

122,000

Senegambia

603,000

TOTAL
RECORDED
AFRICAN
CAPTIVES
10,631,000

West^ Central^

Africa

3 ,^472 ,^000

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To

Europe

8,000

(mainly intercepted

slave ships)

Cape

Verde

St. Helena

Cape of Good Hope

Mozambique

Island

Canary

Islands

Ouidah

Copenhagen

Cape Town

(U.K.)

Clotilda arrived on

May 15, 1860,

and departed

around May 24

Christianus V (Quintus)

and Fredericus IV (Quartus)

route to Africa

Depart for the Americas

December 1709

Depart for Africa

Christianus V–November 6, 1708

Fredericus IV–December 5, 1708

São

Jo

sé^

Pa

qu

ete

d’A

fri

ca

ro

ut

e

Ship wrecked

December 27, 1794

Depart for the Americas

December 3, 1794

NIGERIA

CÔTE

D’IVOIRE

LIBERIA

GUINEA

SENEGAL

MAURITANIA

GUBIINEA-SSAU

THE GAMBIA

CAMEROON

EQ.

GUINEA

GABON

ANGOLA

SOUTH

AFRICA

MOZAMBIQUE

CONGO

DEM. REP.

OF THE

CONGO

BENIN

TOGO

GHANA

MOROCCO

SPAIN

FRANCE

DENMARK

IRE. U.K.

PORTUGAL

AFRICA

EUROPE

EQUAAATOR

MATTHEW W. CHWASTYK, JASON TREAT, AND

SOREN WALLJASPER, NGM STAFF. SCOTT ELDER

SOURCES: TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE DATABASE,

SLAVEVOYAGES.ORG; SLAVE WRECKS PROJECT,

SMITHSONIAN-NMAAHC; ECU MARITIME STUDIES;

GEORGE NØRREGÅRD, FORLISET VED NICARAGUA 1710

DEADLY CROSSING

Of the more than 10 million recorded

captives forced onto ships, on average

one in eight died during the voyage.*

LUCRATIVE TRIANGLE

European nations traded goods, such as

metals and textiles, from their empires to

purchase captives in Africa. Those Africans

were shipped via the months-long Middle

Passage to the Americas to work in agricul-

ture and extract natural resources. Goods

produced by the labor of enslaved people

were then sent back to Europe.

1794

São José Paquete d’Africa

Bound for Brazilian plantations with

more than 500 enslaved southeast

Africans, the Portuguese ship ran

aground during a storm near Cape

Town. Survivors were resold in local

slave markets; 212 captives drowned.

Caribbean

Sea

Gulf^ of

Guinea

ATLANTIC

OCEAN

NO

AM RTH

ER

ICA

SOUTH

AMERIC

A

AFR

ICA

EU

RO

P

E

IRON

SILVER

TEXTILES

BEADS

TOBACCO

RICE

FISH

TA R

CLOTHMETAL TOOLS TIMBER

FIREARMS

FURNITURE

GRAIN

MEAT

BUTTER

SUGAR

COFFEE

MOLASSES

SUGAR

COFFEE

CACAO

AFRIC

Mid ANS

dle (^) Pas
sage
*HISTORICAL RECORDS FROM THE TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE DATABASE ARE SHOWN IN THIS MAP. WHILE INCOMPLETE, THESE
RECORDS HAVE BEEN USED BY THE DATABASE TO ESTIMATE THE TOTAL NUMBER OF AFRICANS PUT ON SLAVE SHIPS AT 12.5 MILLION.
†SCIENTISTS ARE WORKING TO CONCLUSIVELY IDENTIFY THESE SHIPWRECKS.