Slaves brought to the United States represented about 3.6 percent of the total number of Africans transported to the New World, or around 388,000 ... read more
Not only west Africans were taken as slaves. West African slaves were just taken mostly to the Americas while slaves from the eastern and south African were taking eastwards. The black people in islands such as Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Reunion Island and other adjoining islands in the Indian ocean were mostly taken from eastern African. read more
Slavery and the Making of America As a business, Africans made "better slaves" as they were in a strange new land and were dependent on the slave owners, and the "trade" was brutal & cheap & dehumanizing, treating them as a commodity, if they survived the voyage, then owners fed them and kept according to each's own morals & ethics & the needs of the work. read more
Before 1820, more than 80% of the people arriving in the New World were enslaved Africans. It is estimated that 12 million enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas. Further information is available in the history of the transatlantic slave trade section of the International Slavery Museum website. read more