Winds and currents also ensured that Africans carried to Brazil came overwhelmingly from Angola, with south-east Africa and the Bight of Benin playing smaller roles, and that Africans carried to North America, including the Caribbean, left from mainly West Africa, with the Bights of Biafra and Benin and the Gold Coast predominating. Just as Brazil overlapped on the northern system by drawing on the Bight of Benin, the English, French, and Dutch carried some slaves from northern Angola into the Caribbean. ...

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A trip from Africa to Brazil took a month and two months from the coast of West Africa to the Caribbean and North America. ... It is not known exactly how many Africans died at sea during the Middle Passage while estimations vary from 25 to 50 million. ...

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