It is estimated that 12.5 million Africans were transported to the Western Hemisphere between 1515 and 1865. Only an estimated 3 to 5 percent were disembarked in mainland North America. For example, there is little documentary evidence of captives transported from what is now Nigeria to North America. Some may have been trafficked through the English possessions in the Caribbean from Africa to North America. Others may have been enslaved on Caribbean plantations, and only later were they, or their children, trafficked to North America.

Source: The North Africa Journal August 06, 2020 15:56 UTC