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Description: Estimated numbers of embarked and disembarked slaves in the Atlantic slavetrade. The data is from http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces These estimates are about 25% higher than unadjusted numbers in the main database. Blue=Embarked. Red=Disembarked 1 1525 First slave voyage direct from Africa to the Americas 2 1560 Continuous slave trade from Brazil begins 3 1641 Sugar exports from Eastern Caribbean begin 4 1655 English capture Jamaica 5 1695 Gold discovered in Minas Gerais (Brazil) 1697 French obtain St Domingue in Treaty of Rywsick 6 1756 Seven years war begins 7 1776 American Revolutionary War begins 8 1789 Bourbon reforms open Spanish colonial ports to slaves 1791 St Domingue revolution begins 9 1808 Abolition of British and US slave trades takes effect 10 1830 Anglo-Brazilian anti-slave trade treaty 11 1850 Brazil suppresses slave trade 12 1867 Last transatlantic slave voyage arrives in Americas
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