Editing Triangular trade (section)

==Statistics==
According to research provided by [[Emory University]]<ref>[https://slavevoyages.org/assessment/estimates Slave Voyages], Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade - Estimates</ref> as well as [[Henry Louis Gates Jr.]], an estimated 12.5 million slaves were transported from Africa to colonies in North and South America.  The website [[Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database]] assembles data regarding past trafficking in slaves from Africa.  It shows that the top four nations were Portugal, Great Britain, France, and Spain.

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{| class="wikitable sortable mw-datatable" style=text-align:right;
!  !! colspan=7 | Flag of vessels carrying the slaves  !! 
|-
! Destination !! Portuguese !! British !! French !! Spanish !! Dutch !! American !! Danish !! Total
|-
| scope=row style=text-align:left;| [[Colonial Brazil|Portuguese Brazil]] || 4,821,127 || 3,804 || 9,402 || 1,033 || 27,702 || 1,174 || 130 || 4,864,372
|-
| scope=row style=text-align:left;| [[British West Indies|British Caribbean]] || 7,919 || 2,208,296 || 22,920 || 5,795 || 6,996 || 64,836 || 1,489 || 2,318,251
|-
| scope=row style=text-align:left;| [[French West Indies#French Caribbean|French Caribbean]] || 2,562 || 90,984 || 1,003,905 || 725 || 12,736 || 6,242 || 3,062 || 1,120,216
|-
| scope=row style=text-align:left;| [[Hispanic America|Spanish Americas]] || 195,482 || 103,009 || 92,944 || 808,851 || 24,197 || 54,901 || 13,527 || 1,292,911
|-
| scope=row style=text-align:left;| [[Dutch colonization of the Americas|Dutch Americas]] || 500 || 32,446 || 5,189 || 0 || 392,022 || 9,574 || 4,998 || 444,729
|-
| scope=row style=text-align:left;| [[United States]] || 382 || 264,910 || 8,877 || 1,851 || 1,212 || 110,532 || 983 || 388,747
|-
| scope=row style=text-align:left;| [[Danish West Indies]] || 0 || 25,594 || 7,782 || 277 || 5,161 || 2,799 || 67,385 || 108,998
|-
| scope=row style=text-align:left;| [[Europe]] || 2,636 || 3,438 || 664 || 0 || 2,004 || 119 || 0 || 8,861
|-
| scope=row style=text-align:left;| Africa || 69,206 || 841 || 13,282 || 66,391 || 3,210 || 2,476 || 162 || 155,568
|-
| scope=row style=text-align:left;| ''did not arrive'' || 748,452 || 526,121 || 216,439 || 176,601 || 79,096 || 52,673 || 19,304 || 1,818,686
|-
! scope=row style=text-align:left;| Total !! 5,848,266 !! 3,259,443 !! 1,381,404 !! 1,061,524 !! 554,336 !! 305,326 !! 111,040 !! 12,521,339
|}