The first thing that needs to be established is just how many slaves were brought to the Americas. This has proven to be quite difficult at best. There have been many scholars debate just this subject alone. As you will see, many well known scholars have problems justifying their own estimations or guesses.

A quick study of Philip D. Curtin's work: From Guesses to Calculations: Shows his writings are a compilation of bits-n-pieces of information from previously thought of unimportant publishing's. His sole purpose was to try to determine a more accurate account of the number of people brought over from what parts of Africa and to what final location. He goes on to make it clear his findings should not be construed as being accurate or to be relied upon with any degree of cert

Now that we have taken a look at the number of people brought to the Americas, and how it was being accomplished, we can now take a look at what were some of the consequences. How could the removal of several million people from a continent have an economic effect? Why would a people sell his or her own people? What were there reasons? Walter Rodney gives his explanation in The Unequal Partnership Between Africans and Europeans.

The price of the transatlantic slave trade on Africa was absolutely devastating. Not only was there a massive shortage of young women and men especially, but also the future potential of the continent was essentially gone. Many of the young men and women would die before reaching the New World. Thus not being given the chance to hand down their own culture to their children. Their culture was rarely a written culture, but an oral culture. A major factor that must be understood is what is called by some as the "brain drain" Which is considered a by-product of the Triangle Trade of the time. Craftsman, Warriors, politicians, Artist, Princes, Healers, Farmers, and Musician were all sent to be slaves by their enemies, both personal and political or even coincidental. All to serve the white masters on their sugar, cotton, and tobacco plantations on the other side of the world.5

Joseph E. Inikori and Stanley L. Engerman

ainty: but rather an accuracy range of about 20% approximations.

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