Lesson 166: Equiano, Part 1.
Reading assignment: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African (1789), Chapter 1.
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Interactive map of the slave trade. Notice that the slave ships coming to North America were a small fraction of those that went to Latin America and the sugar islands. Yet in 1861, there were over four million slaves in the United States. Legal imports ended in 1808. The reproduction rate and the survival rate for slaves in America were close to the rates for whites. View it here.