The Origins of the British Slave Trade: Human Capital

• Slaves and Commodities

  • Between 1701 and 1810: 500,000 Africans brought to Southern Colonies
  • 3 to 4 million Africans brought to the Caribbean in the same period
  • Between 1601 and 1870, 9.2 million people transported, of 11 million captured

• Slaves as Commodities

  • Between 1752 and 1762, Jamaica alone imports 71,000 enslaved people.

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