North America received under five percent of all Africans enslaved in the New World

Evidence

To the North American colonies it can be estimated that the British merchants sent approximately 20 percent of their slave cargoes in the eighteenth century. Surprisingly, perhaps, to many present-day North Americans, this amounted to less than 5 percent of the total number of Africans brought to the New World by European merchants. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 596

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• CANDY: A striking, tweetable stat: the US received under 5% of Africans carried to the New World — most went to Brazil and the Caribbean.