1709 - Human Rights, Social Justice
Human Rights, Social Justice
Britain's Caribbean colonies import 20,000 slaves per year by official estimates, but many are for re-export to North and South America. French authorities require slave ships bound for Guadeloupe to stop first at Martinique, giving the latter first choice.
Close to 7 million Africans will come across the Atlantic in chains in this century—as many as 100,000 in a single year, but close to that number will die en route or soon after arrival.
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