The Early Cape Slave Trade
… Totals Madagascar 12 (1,064) 9 (779) 12 (977) 33 (2,820) Mozambique, East African cost, and Zanzibar - - 5 (974) 5 … last decades of VOC rule however, most slaves came from Mozambique. The historian Robert Shell has estimated that … foreign slavers en route to the Americas from Madagascar, Mozambique and East Africa who sometimes sold a few slaves in …