History of the United States I / Unit 3 USH1 0333 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Slavery's Rise, in Figures
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The idea
The Royal African Company, chartered sixteen seventy-two, held a monopoly on transporting enslaved Africans to English colonies and carried about three hundred fifty thousand over four decades.
In practice
Barbados holding fifty thousand enslaved people by seventeen hundred.
Where people slip
Between fifteen oh one and eighteen thirty about four million Africans were transported to the Caribbean.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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