Thursday, March 01, 2007

The transatlantic slave trade...

The transatlantic slave trade is largely responsible for bringing to the Americas enslaved Africans.

This slave trade is said to have drawn between ten and twenty million Africans from their homeland, with approximately six hundred thousand coming to Jamaica (one of the largest importer of slaves at the time) between 1533 and 1807.

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