FIGURE 20.2 The Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1501–1866 The volume of slaves involved in the transatlantic slave trade peaked during the eighteenth century. These numbers show the slaves who embarked from Africa and do not reflect the 10 to 15 percent of enslaved Africans who died in transit. (Source: Data from Emory University. “Assessing the Slave Trade: Estimates,” in Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. 2009. http://www.slavevoyages.org.)