this is a ballpark estimation but we believe that about 500,000 were sent to North America, 5,000,000 to south America, 5,000,000 to the carribean, and 2,000,000 to Europe
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By the late 1500s, the introduction of African slaves was absorbed to north America. (Scientific American)
A Lot of them. Now slavery is illegal and now there are no more slaves in north America
Jamestown, Virgina
1619Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, to aid in the production of such lucrative crops as tobacco.
The largest concentration of slaves in North America was in the southern states. They used slaves extensively to harvest labor intensive crops like cotton.