[Roos_Girl]

I need some clarification. This is claiming that a half million slaves were brought to the US. But if you look at the census records from 1860 there were almost 4 million slaves in the US. So were 3.5 million slaves born in the US between 1650 and 1860?

[null and void]

For some reason the muslims didn’t castrate our slaves like they did the ones destined for their own countries.

[Roos_Girl]

No, that’s not correct. There were more than that born here over those years. Just trying to have a ckmplete understanding of the numbers.

[pierrem15]

I read in a history of the British slave trade that in 1685, Trinidad and Tobago had 250,000 slaves. In another census in 1715, they had 250,000 slaves.

In the intervening thirty years, however, 250,000 more slaves were imported to Trinidad and Tobago.

Slaves in the Caribbean were worked to death and then replaced. Conditions in most of North America were generally far better (except for the sugar plantations in Louisiana and rice plantations in South Carolina), which is why such a small number of imported slaves became a much larger number of native born slaves by 1860.

[Lorianne]

It would seem so.