Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

A visual and statistical atlas drawn from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, documenting 34,934 voyages estimated to represent over 80 percent of the total trade, which forcibly transported 12.5 million Africans to the Americas with approximately 1.8 million dying in the Middle Passage. The maps track embarkation zones across West and Central Africa (Bight of Benin, West Central Africa, and Senegambia), European organizing ports (Nantes above all for Saint-Domingue), and the distribution of captives across the Americas — including the specific African coastal origins of enslaved people brought to Saint-Domingue. Essential companion to SlaveVoyages.org for understanding the quantitative and geographic dimensions of the trade.