According to  __The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom__ by Herbert R.
Gutman (1976), page 328:

"Excluding imports into Louisiana, Philip D. Curtin estimates the total trade
to the mainland North American colonies from 1700 to 1861 at about four
hundre d thousand Africans.  He also shows that slightly more than half of
all slaves arrived in the forty-year period between 1740 and 1780..."

The footnotes refer to Philip D. Curtin, __The Atlantic Slave Trade: A
Census__ (1969).

AFAIK, legal importation of slaves into the US stopped in 1808.


On Monday 18 February 2002 12:29, you wrote:
> Can anyone give me a reliable estimate on how many Africans were brought
> into what became the U.S., as well as a citation.  Or refer me to a
> authoritative source?  Ditto with Virginia alone? I thought I had a handle
> on this at 2.3 million for all the colonies and first few years of the
> U.S., but have recently been told this is not correct.  Many thanks.
>
> -- Stephan
>

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