The transatlantic slave trade reaches its peak volume

Assembled from 18 blocks · 1 evidence · 10 related

1. Story
2. The forced transatlantic transport of African people, which began in the first decade of the sixteenth century, reached its greatest annual volumes in the eighteenth — long after the voyages that opened the routes and driven by the expansion of the sugar, coffee and cotton plantation complex rather than by exploration. The chronology matters for how the period is taught: the opening of the Atlantic did not itself cause the trade, but it built the wind knowledge, the shipping, the finance and the demand that made a trade of that scale possible.
3. Knowledge
4. Sugar
5. The transatlantic slave trade
6. The transatlantic slave trade reaches its peak volume
7. Connections
8. The transatlantic slave trade
9. Sugar
10. Sugar
11. The post-contact population collapse of the Americas
12. The transatlantic slave trade reaches its peak volume
13. The Middle Passage
14. The transatlantic trade in enslaved people operates
15. The transatlantic slave trade
16. The transatlantic slave trade reaches its peak volume
17. Evidence
18. Voyage-level estimates of the number of captives embarked in Africa and disembarked in the Americas, by period and region, assembled from ship registers, insurance records and customs returns. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted in this session — slavevoyages.org was probed and refused by the egress proxy. The figures quoted in this pack (roughly 12.5 million embarked, roughly 10.7 million disembarked) are from the author's knowledge of the database. IT IS REVISED CONTINUOUSLY, so a curator must take current figures directly from the site rather than from this record.