claim: the american slave trade caused 5 million deaths "or more."
author: jon stewart
evidence_1: the slave trade not only led to the violent transportation overseas of millions of  africans but also to the deaths of many millions more. ... 5 million – were imported  into brazil, but enslaved africans were sent to most of the colonies of south and ...
evidence_2: the atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by  slave traders ..... the transatlantic slave trade resulted in a vast and as yet still  unknown loss of ... besides the slaves who died on the middle passage, more  africans likely .... around 5 million africans died in these camps, reducing the  number of ...
evidence_3: well over a million more – one tenth of the volume carried off in the slave trade ...  rates of natural decrease ran as high as 5 percent a year. while the death rate of  us slaves was about the same as that of jamaican slaves ... slaves suffered a  variety of miserable and often fatal maladies due to the atlantic slave trade, and  ...
evidence_4: follow paths from the translatlantic slave trade to the new great migration. ...  home; |; chapter 1; |; chapter 2; |; chapter 3; |; chapter 4; |; chapter 5 ... of  captivity resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1.5 to 2 million men, women and  .... the growing population of african americans in more northern urban areas  created ...
evidence_5: the transatlantic slave trade is unique within the universal history of slavery for  three ... it involved several regions and continents: africa, america, the caribbean , europe ... millions of africans were torn from their homes, deported to the  american ... these figures exclude those who died aboard the ships and in the  course of ...