Document showing estimated amount of African people taken as Slaves by English slave traders from Africa during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade from 1690 to 1807.
The truth is that many people died trying to avoid captivity.
Senegambia (Today Senegal ๐ธ๐ณ and Gambia ๐ฌ๐ฒ) - 141,300 people.
Sierra Leone ๐ธ๐ฑ- 111,600 people.
Windward Coast (Coastlines of modern countries Sierra Leone ๐ธ๐ฑ, Liberia ๐ฑ๐ท and Ivory Coast ๐จ๐ฎ) - 299,300 people.
Gold Coast (Today Ghana ๐ฌ๐ญ) - 473,800 people.
Bight of Benin (today coastline of Togo ๐น๐ฌ , Benin ๐ง๐ฏ , and Southwestern Nigeria ๐ณ๐ฌ) - 292,700 people.
Bight of Biafra (Today Eastern Nigeria ๐ณ๐ฌ including South South and South East, Cameroon ๐จ๐ฒ, Equatorial Guinea ๐ฌ๐ถ, Gabon ๐ฌ๐ฆ) - 776,400 people.
Angola ๐ฆ๐ด and Mozambique ๐ฒ๐ฟ - 468,300 people.
Other unknown locations in Africa - 16,100 people.
"I verily believe that the far greater part of wars, in Africa, would cease, if the Europeans would cease to tempt them, by offering goods for sale. I believe, the captives reserved for sale are fewer than the slain." John Newton, former captain of an enslaver ship.
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