No, not all the Founding Fathers owned slaves. However, most of the Southern Founding Fathers did own slaves, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, James Madison, Patrick Henry and George Mason. Although he was from Pennsylvania, Benjamin Franklin did own a few slaves during most of his adult life.
About 3%.
The largest percentage of slaves (45%) ended up living in Brazil.
According to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database findings, it is estimated that about 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the "New World." Of this number about 10.7 million slaves survived the brutal Middle Passage. The largest number of African slaves was shipped to Brazil (about 45%), then the Caribbean (about 40%), then what is currently Latin America (about 10-11%) and finally to North America (about 3%). That means that about 388,000 slaves arrived on the shores of North America.
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