Assignment 3b
Anton Sarafudinov
2026-03-02
Part 2: Analysis and Questions
Total slaves imported to the US:
## [1] 179941US proportion of all slaves taken from Africa
## [1] 0.05492498Graphs and tables
US slave imports by decade
US slave imports by region and decade table
## # A tibble: 37 × 18
## principal_region_slaves_dis principal_port_slave…¹ state `1650` `1660` `1670`
## <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 New York New York New … 4 40 0
## 2 Virginia Virginia, port unspec… Virg… 0 0 189
## 3 Maryland Maryland, port unspec… Mary… 0 0 0
## 4 Virginia York River Virg… 0 0 0
## 5 Gulf coast Louisiana Loui… 0 0 0
## 6 Maryland Annapolis Mary… 0 0 0
## 7 South Carolina Charleston Sout… 0 0 0
## 8 Virginia Lower James River Virg… 0 0 0
## 9 Virginia Rappahannock Virg… 0 0 0
## 10 Gulf coast New Orleans Loui… 0 0 0
## 11 Gulf coast Biloxi Miss… 0 0 0
## 12 Gulf coast La Balise Loui… 0 0 0
## 13 Maryland Londontowne Mary… 0 0 0
## 14 Maryland Patuxent Mary… 0 0 0
## 15 Virginia Upper James River Virg… 0 0 0
## 16 Maryland North Potomac Mary… 0 0 0
## 17 Rhode Island Rhode Island, port un… Rhod… 0 0 0
## 18 South Carolina Beaufort Sout… 0 0 0
## 19 South Carolina South Carolina, place… Sout… 0 0 0
## 20 Virginia South Potomac Virg… 0 0 0
## 21 Massachusetts Boston Mass… 0 0 0
## 22 Florida Florida, port unspeci… Flor… 0 0 0
## 23 Maryland Nottingham Mary… 0 0 0
## 24 North Carolina North Carolina, port … Nort… 0 0 0
## 25 North Carolina Portsmouth Nort… 0 0 0
## 26 Virginia Bermuda Hundred Virg… 0 0 0
## 27 Virginia Hampton Virg… 0 0 0
## 28 Florida St. Augustine Flor… 0 0 0
## 29 Georgia Savannah Geor… 0 0 0
## 30 Maryland Nanjemoy Mary… 0 0 0
## 31 Rhode Island Newport Rhod… 0 0 0
## 32 Florida Pensacola Flor… 0 0 0
## 33 Gulf coast Mississippi Miss… 0 0 0
## 34 Maryland Lower Cedar Point Mary… 0 0 0
## 35 Maryland Oxford Mary… 0 0 0
## 36 Virginia Georgetown Virg… 0 0 0
## 37 Virginia Osborne's Landing Virg… 0 0 0
## # ℹ abbreviated name: ¹principal_port_slave_dis
## # ℹ 12 more variables: `1680` <dbl>, `1700` <dbl>, `1710` <dbl>, `1720` <dbl>,
## # `1730` <dbl>, `1740` <dbl>, `1750` <dbl>, `1760` <dbl>, `1770` <dbl>,
## # `1780` <dbl>, `1790` <dbl>, `1800` <dbl>US slave imports by region and decade table
Countries participating in export from Africa by decade
## # A tibble: 27 × 9
## decade `Portugal / Brazil` `Great Britain` U.S.A. Netherlands France
## <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 1530 560 0 0 0 0
## 2 1560 0 1078 0 0 0
## 3 1610 380 0 0 0 0
## 4 1630 404 0 0 0 0
## 5 1640 0 0 298 0 0
## 6 1650 381 0 0 5825 0
## 7 1660 0 12053 0 27219 948
## 8 1670 0 6138 149 26105 1066
## 9 1680 0 6152 146 27424 1343
## 10 1690 0 4691 0 24946 648
## 11 1700 942 33797 0 30106 7685
## 12 1710 0 67345 0 35849 37689
## 13 1720 600 129099 1091 30841 52625
## 14 1730 0 190340 2507 26322 71466
## 15 1740 129 128881 3016 13888 79002
## 16 1750 4091 178256 1907 25204 80506
## 17 1760 11065 259155 6402 33943 97014
## 18 1770 11538 247734 7050 35450 125113
## 19 1780 5899 215188 2202 2526 143217
## 20 1790 4194 270783 7403 1777 60578
## 21 1800 13424 246754 8694 582 3103
## 22 1810 7479 0 6 0 5893
## 23 1820 788 0 0 0 38504
## 24 1830 2990 0 0 0 2916
## 25 1840 0 0 0 0 0
## 26 1850 174 0 0 0 0
## 27 1860 0 0 386 0 0
## # ℹ 3 more variables: `Denmark / Baltic` <dbl>, `Spain / Uruguay` <dbl>,
## # Austria <dbl>Part 3: Summary
Most slave imports in the US happened during the colonial period with few slaves coming after independence. The US was also less active in the trade the Great Britain, France, Portugal/Brazil, and the Netherlands. Most slaves came to the states of Virginia and South Carolina. It can be concluded that the US had less of a role in the slave trade than several European countries. This is especially true for northern states, since the south recieved the bulk of slaves.