Silja Fröhlich (22 de agosto de 2019). «East Africa's forgotten slave trade». Deutsche Welle(en inglés). Consultado el 26 de enero de 2024. «17 million East Africans were sold into slavery: "Most people still have the so-called Transatlantic [slave] trade by Europeans into the New World in mind. But in reality the Arab-Muslim slavery was much greater,"».
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2013). «How Many Slaves Landed in the U.S.?». The African Americans(en inglés). Servicio Público de Radiodifusión PBS (Estados Unidos). Consultado el 10 de febrero de 2023. «Between 1525 and 1866, in the entire history of the slave trade to the New World, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New Worlde».
