Slave trade

National Gallery of Art

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The Transatlantic Slave Trade (1501-1867), sold at least 12.5 million black Africans as slaves to work for white land-owners on the other side of the ocean. Of these 1.8 million died at sea. Most of the rest were worked to death within seven years in the sugar cane fields of Brazil and the Caribbean.

Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana / Photographed by Kimball, 477 Broadway, N.Y. | Library of Congress

Map of transatlantic slave trade, millions of enslaved people were brought to the Americas through this route, and some of them were brought to Canada.

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