After being marched to the coast for sale, enslaved people waited in large forts called factories. The amount of time in factories varied, but Milton Meltzer 's Slavery: A World History states this process resulted in or around 4.5 % of deaths during the transatlantic slave trade. [ 59 ] In other words, over 820 ,000 people would have died in African ports such as Benguela , Elmina and Bonny reducing the number of those shipped to 17.5 million. [ 59 ]
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