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To: ansel12

“No, I’m not wrong on other topics,...”

Yeah, actually you are and I have demonstrated that fact repeatedly in other threads.

“...but that kind of extraneous nonsense seems to make up a lot of your angry posts.”

Except my posts are never angry and it isn’t extraneous if it is accurate (and it is) because it touches on your credibility - which is low.

Now, let’s look at the figures you just posted:

British America (minus North America) 18.4%
British North America 6.45%
English Americas 3.25%
Dutch West Indies 2.0%
Danish West Indies 0.3%

Most of the above would mean Protestants. Hence, 29% could very well be Protestant. It might be slightly more, it might be slightly less, but clearly almost 30% of the slaves brought to the New World went to the vastly smaller holdings of Protestants in the New World. And it was largely British Protestants forcing them across the Atlantic as well.

This means your claim of 20% to 30% was accurate but 20% was definitely low end. Clearly it’s much closer to 30 than 20.

What’s so amazing about that is how tiny a population of Protestants we’re talking about. The Spanish, Portuguese and French greatly outnumber the English and Dutch Protestants here in the New World and yet those Protestants brought in and kept as slaves 1/3 of the total slave population of the New World. Proportionately this means Protestants made a greater impact in establishing slavery in the New World than did Catholics.


64 posted on 08/31/2014 10:47:39 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998

Different sources make it even more clear that slavery was mostly a catholic thing, but this was good enough.

I thought most conservatives knew where the millions and millions of slaves were going.


65 posted on 08/31/2014 10:51:51 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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