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Show data only from to Timeline: Number of Captives Embarked and Disembarked per Year
The full extent of time covered by estimates is
1501 – 1866. 1500 1550 1600 1650 1700 1750 1800 1850
120k
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100k
Embarkation/Disembarkation
20k
Year: 1571
Embarked: 2,928
Disembarked: 2,086
1 1525 First slave voyage direct from Africa to the Americas 8 1776 American Revolutionary War begins
2 1560 Continuous slave trade from Brazil begins 9 1789 Bourbon reforms open Spanish colonial ports to slaves
3 1641 Sugar exports from Eastern Caribbean begin 10 1791 St Domingue revolution begins
4 1655 English capture Jamaica 11 1808 Abolition of British and US slave trades takes effect
5 1695 Gold discovered in Minas Gerais (Brazil) 12 1830 Anglo-Brazilian anti-slave trade treaty
6 1697 French obtain St Domingue in Treaty of Rywsick 13 1850 Brazil suppresses slave trade
7 1756 Seven years war begins 14 1866 Last reported transatlantic slave voyage arrives in Americas
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