Hi - This is a grimly fascinating topic... do you have a source for those stats at the head of the post? I'd be interested in knowing how they were worked out... there must have been a huge amount of source-digging to come up with those stats by numerous historians, they're so exact!
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My "source" right now is the museum under discussion. As a major historic center, it has hosted tourists from all round the globe and I am sure among those have included people who had the power to object that claim if they had enough counter evidence. While posting this, I had to confirm the info by looking at the footage on my camera I had of that poster on the wall.
I must admit I was fascinated by the precision. It tallied the numbers from all the major slave ports from the Guinea to Ghana to Nigeria. Considering that this was a very elitist transaction at the time, it is really not surprising that they could have such information. I mean every cargo had to be declared with its contents.
Thanks for that - honestly, I wasn't questioning the validity of the information, just interested in knowing where it came from. You've answered that, cheers: official stats, which doesn't surprise me: the English have long had an obsession for record keeping.
Exactly! If I were to trust numbers, it would be one the English present :)