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General map of the transatlantic traffic
Map of the flow of enslaved people on the transatlantic route that allows us to understand how a large part of the flow went to Brazil, from the west of the African coast under the command of the Portuguese and later Brazilian crown.what it lost It is estimated that between 1514 and 1866 there were around 35,000 slave expeditions, removing millions of people from their places of origin, their families and cultures. The African continent was thus devastated and its peoples captured, separated and mixed together, so that they lost their languages and culture, making it easier for the coloniser and slaver to control and abuse them.
The process of colonisation of African territories and subsequent transatlantic trafficking is considered the ‘Great Catastrophe’ or ‘Maafi’ in Swahili, a term coined by researcher Marimba Ani during the 1990s.
These and other maps can be analysed on the Slave Voyages website, a collaborative digital research project that compiles and makes public and accessible historical records on the largest slave trade in history.