Answer to Question #324477 in History for lenesa

Question

was the transatlantic slave trade shaped by the economic demand of the slave market or by the internal social dynamic of African societies?

Answer 1

Yes, According to recent revisions of estimates for the volume of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, roughly 11,863,000 slaves were exported from Africa over the course of the Atlantic slave trade, which is a tiny upward revision from my 1982 synthesis and still well within Curtin's 1969 range. More accurate examinations of the French and British sectors show that the chronological and regional distribution of slave exports, particularly in the eighteenth century, needs to be revised.