Estimates vary, but somewhere between 20 million and 60 million people were captured, enslaved and brought to the Americas. Millions more died in the slave raids, in the dungeons and in the Middle Passage. From: Through slavery's darkest passages - Ghana's slave dungeons - Essence , Special Travel Section, October 1992. Other estimates are lower (BBC gives 15 million), though they take into account only those Africans who made it into the New World alive: According to the best current estimates a total of 10 to 11 million living slaves crossed the Atlantic Ocean from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. (Since others died in wars and in transit , Africa's total population loss was much greater.) -- American Slavery, 1619-1877, by Peter Kolchin The above only deals with those that were displaced to the Americas, not with those who never made it. Not all were transported across the Atlantic, as others were taken to Europe (Spain and England, for in
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