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The transatlantic trade in enslaved people operates

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Over roughly three and a half centuries, on the SlaveVoyages estimates, about 12.5 million people are embarked from African ports for the Americas and about 10.7 million disembark, the difference being deaths during the crossing. The great majority are landed in Brazil and the Caribbean rather than in North America. This is the mechanism behind roughly half of everything else in this Journey: the instruments, the ensemble practices and the vocal traditions of West and West-Central Africa reach the Americas because the people who held them were transported and sold.

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  2. Over roughly three and a half centuries, on the SlaveVoyages estimates, about 12.5 million people are embarked from African ports for the Americas and about 10.7 million disembark, the difference being deaths during the crossing. The great majority are landed in Brazil and the Caribbean rather than in North America. This is the mechanism behind roughly half of everything else in this Journey: the instruments, the ensemble practices and the vocal traditions of West and West-Central Africa reach the Americas because the people who held them were transported and sold.
  3. Knowledge
  4. The transatlantic slave trade
  5. The Middle Passage
  6. West Africa
  7. The transatlantic trade in enslaved people operates
  8. Connections
  9. The Middle Passage
  10. The transatlantic slave trade
  11. West Africa
  12. Banjo
  13. West Africa
  14. The transatlantic slave trade
  15. Havana
  16. New Orleans
  17. Rio de Janeiro
  18. The transatlantic trade in enslaved people operates
  19. Hans Sloane records gourd lutes in Jamaica
  20. Sugar
  21. The post-contact population collapse of the Americas
  22. The transatlantic slave trade reaches its peak volume
  23. The Middle Passage
  24. The transatlantic trade in enslaved people operates
  25. Kora
  26. Ngoni
  27. Akonting
  28. The West African drum ensemble
  29. The Middle Passage
  30. The trans-Saharan routes
  31. The trans-Saharan routes
  32. The Kru seafarers
  33. Highlife
  34. The transatlantic trade in enslaved people operates
  35. Jefferson names the banjar and its origin
  36. Evidence
  37. Roughly 12.5 million people were embarked in Africa for the Americas and about 10.7 million disembarked, across voyages conventionally dated 1501–1866. V55 verification basis: a retrieved search result attributed the figure of 12,520,000 embarked and 10.7 million disembarked explicitly to the database's own Estimates page, which is what this record cites; the database itself was not queried, and its estimates are periodically revised, so a curator should take current figures from it directly.
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