[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.

[buffyt]

I have ancestors who were slaves and my father’s family were Cherokee until a couple of generations ago. Then they intermarriage with whites. I think it’s time to forget the bad things in the past, forgive, move on.....or stay mired in the past and be miserable! People are so invested in being depressed aboutvthings that do not matter at all anymore!