Which continent received more slaves- North America the Caribbean or South America?
Historian Philip Curtin estimates that the total slave trade from Africa to the Western Hemisphere amounted to 9,566,000 people, the largest forced migration in all history. The 4,700,000 taken to South America accounted for half of the entire trade. The 4,040,000 who went to the West Indies represented more than 40 percent. By comparison, the British colonies/United States received roughly 399,000. South America imported nearly 12 slaves and the West Indies imported more than 10 slaves for every slave who went to North America 85 How many slaves were brought into South America? Through the trans-Atlantic slave trade, South America (especially Brazil) became the home of millions of people in the African Diaspora. The tensions between colonial countries in Europe, indigenous peoples and escaped slaves shaped South America from the 16th through the 19th Centuries. In 1807, Britain became the first European nation to ban the slave trade. France, Holland, and the United States soon thereaf
