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According to the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database, 388,000 Africans were shipped from Africa to the United States. This seems like a low number, considering there were 4 million slaves in the 1860s. How would this population growth be explained?

by /u/torturedpianist in /r/AskHistorians

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