SlaveVoyages.org, Timeline: Number of Captives Embarked and Disembarked per Year

This temporal graph from SlaveVoyages.org allows viewers to see the number of people that were taken as captives from Africa and shipped across the Atlantic to be sold into slavery between 1501 and 1866. The graph allows viewers to compare the number of people embarked and disembarked, providing insight into the terrible and deadly conditions on the slave ships, and to see how the numbers changed over time and in conjunction with other global events. By visiting the interactive graph on the SlaveVoyages.org website, viewers can focus on different points of disembarkation and on specific years (e.g., the American colonial period).