Near four million of African slaves were transported to the Indian Ocean Islands
plantations;
Near eight millions were exported to the Mediterranean countries.
Figures (UNESCO) on the number of deportees (VIII - XIX century): 24
million Africans.
Estimation of the African population (half of the nineteenth
century): 100 million Africans;
What the African population might have been (half of the nineteenth
century): 200 million Africans.
African Slave Trade:
African Historical Trafficking: (estimation tens
of million Africans);
Muslim Trade (7th - 20th centuries, 8 - 12 million Africans):
Tran-Saharan Trade: Destination to the Maghreb, Egypt, and the Mediterranean region (eight million);
Oriental Trade: Destination
Arabian Peninsula;
Indian Ocean Islands (four million).
Transatlantic African Slave Trade:
organized by the Europeans: Spain - Castile (the founders), the United Kingdom, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, and Denmark. The United States and Brazil;
Centuries: 16th - 19th (400 years);
Destination: throughout the Americas and the Caribbean;
12 million Africans.
Africans descendants of the Diaspora have largely contributed to the European, American, and the Asian development.