Slavery Stats, Facts, and Figures

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Slavery Stats, Facts, and Figures
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African Slavery

• More empowered
• Managed their own groups as opposed to being
  managed by Europeans
• People saw their groups as a family and also
  sought to assimilate new people
• Based on relationships
• Others based on factory mentality

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Trans-Saharan Slave trade

• 10th Century
• 6000 7000 slaves traded per year
• Eventually 7 million
• Slaves quickly assimilated
• Used mostly as servants rather than laborers
• Limited Demographic Effect
• Some women were concubines and males were eunuchs

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Arabian/Indian Slave Trade

• Pre-16th Century most slaves exported from East
  Africa to Arabian Peninsula
• Initially only a few thousand per year
• Zanzibar
• Captured by Arabs who did venture to the interior
  of the continent
• Preferred women over men
• Used as slaves for household use or sexual use
  rather than plantation
• Indian
• Used for plantation work
• Increase with better ships (10,000s per year)

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Atlantic Slave Trade

• Began in 16th century to provide labor for
  Portuguese sugar plantations
• Increasing colonization of the Americas,
  especially South America, increase the need for
  labor
• Brazil for mining and farming
• Roughly 12 million shipped and 10.5 survived
• Peaked at 90,000 per year
• Some were shipped to South Africa