FIGURE 20.1 Estimated Slave Imports by Destination, 1501–1866 Brazil was the single largest importer of African slaves from 1501 to 1866. But when taken cumulatively, the British, French, Dutch, and Danish colonies of the Caribbean rivaled the much larger colony of Brazil for numbers of slaves imported from Africa. (Source: Data from Emory University. “Assessing the Slave Trade: Estimates,” in Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. 2009. http://www.slavevoyages.org.)