For the first graph, it is showing how the growth of slaves increased from 1500 to 1800 and r population doubled. Not really surprised about it. When slaves get taken, the people there have to make more of them to replace the ones lost. It's not exactly a happy thing, but yay for more people?
For the second graph it shows the number of slaves exported by year from the 16th century to the 18th century. This graph isn't very happy either. I'm surprised that from that time, the number of shaves exported is like 10x more from the 16th to 18th century. It's sad. About 55,000 people were taken from their homes and probably never saw their mothers, fathers, siblings, children, or friends ever again :(
For the third graph it just shows the percentage of how many slaves went to the Caribbean, Brazil, Central America, and North America. I'm not surprised that the most amount of slaves went to the Caribbeans and the least amount to North America. The Caribbean was where all the sugar plantations were and in North America, there weren't that many plantations that needed large scale amounts of slaves.
Did these graphs help my understanding?
Yes, yes they did. It's one thing to read about something and then to see it mathematically. Sometimes words don't cut it, but numbers on a graph that compare the words appear more clearer and easier to understand.
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