Estimating conditional probabilities of historical migrations in the transatlantic slave trade using kriging and Markov decision process models

Ashton Wiens, Henry B. Lovejoy, Zachary Mullen +1

Intra-African conflicts during the collapse of the kingdom of Oyo from 1817 to 1836 resulted in the enslavement of an estimated 121,000 people who were then transported to coastal…