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Not only west Africans were taken as slaves. West African slaves were just taken mostly to the Americas while slaves from the eastern and south African were taking eastwards. The black people in islands such as Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Reunion Island and other adjoining islands in the Indian ocean were mostly taken from eastern African.
Well over 90 percent of African slaves were imported into the Caribbean and South America. Only about 6 percent of imports went directly to British North America. Yet by 1825, the U.S. had a quarter of blacks in the New World. The majority of African slaves were brought to British North America between 1720 and 1780.he median size of slaveholdings ranged from approximately 25 slaves in the tobacco regions of Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina, to 30-50 slaves in upland cotton regions. Plantations in the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia and the sugar parishes of Louisiana averaged 60-80 slaves.