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Approximately how many Africans were transported across to the Americas during the era of the slave trade?

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Scholars believe that around 15,400,000 slaves were exported from Africa, and around 13,392,000 landed in the Americas.

Source: theguardian.com

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Between 1525 and 1866, in the entire history of the slave trade to the New World, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World.

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