Slave arrivals from Africa to the U.S. by region and century 1628-1860
Between the 17th and mid-19th centuries, almost 400 thousand slaves arrived in mainland North America, after embarking on slave ships in Africa. The most common disembarking regions were in the Carolinas and Georgia, where more than half of these slaves disembarked. The majority of the remaining slaves disembarked in the Chesapeake region, which stretched from Virginia to New York, while a smaller number disembarked further to the north, or in the states along the Gulf of Mexico. It may also be of note that very few slaves disembarked in Chesapeake or the northern U.S. in the nineteenth century, as slavery began to be abolished in some northern states and regions in the late 1700s.
