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Captured and bound by chains, the enslaved represent a legacy of Black lineage on American soil.
The banks of the British Empire, Portugal, Spain, France, and the Netherlands were complicit in the slave trade.
Estimated 2.4MM Africans died on the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.
388,000 arrived in the US, and when combined with the influx from the Caribbean, the total reached 450,000. By the 1800s, this population had grown to a staggering 4.4 million.