US History timeline & concept chart: 10th-16th centuries pre-colonial Native Americans to early North American colonization (Spanish, French, Dutch): Difference between revisions

US History timeline & concept chart: 10th-16th centuries pre-colonial Native Americans to early North American colonization (Spanish, French, Dutch) (view source)

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 * Middle Passage mortality rate is estimated at 12.5% or 2.2 million people
 * estimated 15.3 million people were sent to the Americas as slaves
-* estimated 33% of slaves died during the first year at Caribbean destinations, called “seasoning camps,” with perhaps 5 million having died there across the slaving period.
+* estimated 33% of slaves sent to “seasoning camps” in the Caribbean died their, mostly of dysentry;
 * estimated 5% of African slaves brought to Americas went to North American colonies
 * '''Olaudah Equiano''' wrote a memoir of experiences as slave (published 1789)
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 ** subsequent enslavement was in the Caribbean
 ** purchased his freedom from his final slave owner, Robert King, a Philadelphia Quaker who conducted trade in the Caribbean
-** Equiano conducted business with King who taught him literacy and business and allowed him to buy his freedom
+** Equiano conducted business with King who taught him to read and business, and allowed him to buy his freedom
 ** in 1766, Equiano moved to England as a freedman, since in Georgia he was almost kidnapped on the docks where he was unloading a shipment and sent back to slavery
 ** became involved in various ventures including an Arctic expedition to find the "Northeast Passage" to India (via Norway and Russia, as opposed to the '''Northwest Passage''' which marked attempts to cross from the Atlantic to the Pacific north of Canada)