The Scattering
The Dispersion Map
An estimated 12.5 million Africans were forcibly carried across the Atlantic. Trace where they were taken from, where they were brought, what they built, and what they endured.
Origin region Destination
1700s
Senegambia & Upper Guinea
United States (Carolinas, Louisiana)
Estimated people: Hundreds of thousands
Contributions
Rice cultivation expertise (Gullah/Geechee), Wolof and Mandinka linguistic influence, banjo origins.
Oppression Faced
Chattel slavery on rice and indigo plantations; later Jim Crow segregation.