The Slave Trade. Oliver Ransford, 1971 1st Ed.

  1971. Hardcover. Book Condition: good +Dust Jacket Condition: Good + 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Spine is sunned, otherwise this book in goodcondition,The grim facts are, financiers in ports like Bristol and London saw slavery as a lucrative business. At least two British titled families built estates from gains made backing the triangular trade - beads and trinkets to Africa - slaves to the New World - run and sugar to Britain. The level of slave exports grew from about 36,000 a year during the early 18th century to almost 80,000 a year during the 1780s. The Angolan region of west-central Africa made up slightly more than half of all Africans sent to the Americas and a quarter of imports to British North America. Approximately 11,863,000 Africans were shipped across the Atlantic, with a death rate during the Middle Passage reducing this number by 10-20 percent. As a result between 9.6 and 10.8 million Africans arrived in the Americas. About 500,000 Africans were imported into what is now the U.S. between 1619 and 1807--or about 6 percent of all Africans forcibly imported into the Americas. About 70 percent arrived directly from Africa. Well over 90 percent of African slaves were imported into the Caribbean and South America. Only about 6 percent of imports went directly to British North America. Yet by 1825, the U.S. had a quarter of blacks in the New World. The majority of African slaves were brought to British North America between 1720 and 1780.