Black in Latin AmericaSelected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries The history of how six Latin American countries acknowledgeor denytheir African past 12. 5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over 11. 0 million survived the arduous journey, only about 450,000 of them arrived in the United States. The restover ten and a half millionwere taken to the Caribbean