Regional Origins of Enslaved Africans Destined for the Americas, 1601-1867 (2005)

Regional Origins of Enslaved Africans Destined for the Americas, 1601-1867 (2005)

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Topic 2.3

“Regional Origins of Enslaved Africans Destined for the Americas, 1601-1867,” In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience, The New York Public Library (2005)

Map of Africa highlighting countries along the West and West Central African coast, from Senegal to Angola, plus, on the east, Mozambique and Madagascar; a bar chart for each region show how many people were enslaved in each half-century between 1600 and 1867.


Source: Michael Siegel and Rutgers Cartography, “Regional Origins of Enslaved Africans Destined for America, 1601–1867,” In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience website, 2005 (The New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, ©NYPL)