Slaves in Colonial America

In Mr. Eck's class we are learning about slaves in early America in the 1700’s.

We have learned that their were about 8 to 10 million enslaved Africans taken to colonies in the Americas. There were about half a million of slaves in British colonies in North America. About four million Slaves were in the British, French, and Dutch colonies of the Caribbean. In the Portuguese colony of Brazil, there were nearly three and a half million enslaved Africans. Other Spanish colonies accounted for 1.5 million additional slaves.

Part of our assignment included creating a bar graph to visually describe the distribution of slaves in the early colonies. (see the graph below)

-- by Levi A.