The Atlantic slave trade, measured

Between the early 1500s and the 1860s about 12.5 million Africans were forced aboard ships for the Americas and about 10.7 million survived the Middle Passage. About 45 per cent of the survivors (some 4.9 million) landed in Brazil and about 3.6 per cent (some 389,000) in mainland North America.

Set beside it, Revelation 18:13 (IN PLACE): “And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.”

If it has started, it needs: People bought and sold
The record on 19 September 2026: 50 million in modern slavery

The mechanism

CAPTURE

How it was checked

• EvidenceT5 INDEPENDENT SECULAR; Status: ADDED 2026-09-19
• Letter eraTHE RELEASES, AND THE ENCLOSURE THAT FOLLOWS EACH 1382 to 1694
• SourcesRECORD — Encyclopedia Virginia (Virginia Humanities), 'The Transatlantic Slave Trade', using the SlaveVoyages database · checked 19 September: SlaveVoyages, 'Estimates: Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade' (the database itself; read in a browser, table set to broad disembarkation regions, disembarked only); Encyclopedia Virginia, 'The Transatlantic Slave Trade' (the row's source)