The actual number of men, women and children who were snatched from their homes in Africa and transported in slave ships across the Atlantic, either to the Caribbean islands or to North and South America, will never be known. .

The following figures are taken from Morel's calculations as reproduced by Professor Melville J. Herskovits and cover the period 1666-1800:

1666-1776: Slaves imported only by the English for the English, French and Spanish colonies:3 million (250,000 died on the voyage).

1680-1786: Slaves imported for the English colonies in America: 2,130,000 (Jamaica alone absorbed 610,000).

1716-1756: Average annual number of slaves imported for the American colonies: 70,000, with a total of 3.5 million.

1752-1762: Jamaica alone imported 71,115 slaves.

1759-1762: Guadeloupe alone imported 40,000 slaves.

1776-1800: A yearly average of 74,000 slaves were imported for the American colonies, or a total of 1,850,000; this yearly average was divided up as follows: by the
English, 38,000;
French, 20,000;
Portuguese, 10,000;
Dutch, 4,000;
Danes, 2,000.