Posted on 06/29/2015 11:47:48 AM PDT by Lorianne
Usually, when we say American slavery or the American slave trade, we mean the American colonies or, later, the United States. But as we discussed in Episode 2 of Slates History of American Slavery Academy, relative to the entire slave trade, North America was a bit player. From the trades beginning in the 16th century to its conclusion in the 19th, slave merchants brought the vast majority of enslaved Africans to two places: the Caribbean and Brazil. Of the more than 10 million enslaved Africans to eventually reach the Western Hemisphere, just 388,747less than 4 percent of the totalcame to North America. This was dwarfed by the 1.3 million brought to Spanish Central America, the 4 million brought to British, French, Dutch, and Danish holdings in the Caribbean, and the 4.8 million brought to Brazil.
This interactive, designed and built by Slates Andrew Kahn, gives you a sense of the scale of the trans-Atlantic slave trade across time, as well as the flow of transport and eventual destinations. The dotswhich represent individual slave shipsalso correspond to the size of each voyage. The larger the dot, the more enslaved people on board. And if you pause the map and click on a dot, youll learn about the ships flagwas it British? Portuguese? French?its origin point, its destination, and its history in the slave trade. The interactive animates more than 20,000 voyages cataloged in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. (We excluded voyages for which there is incomplete or vague information in the database.) The graph at the bottom accumulates statistics based on the raw data used in the interactive and, again, only represents a portion of the actual slave tradeabout one-half of the number of enslaved Africans who actually were transported away from the continent.
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And never forget that it was mainly blacks who captured them sold them into slavery.
It was mostly a Catholic thing.
So the slave trade to the American south was just a bit more than 8% of the total slave trade to the New World, but we - apparently - are to blame for 100% of it.
It was mostly a muslim thing. Slavery still is.
As I traveled through villages in west Africa, my interpreter would explain to me that those people had been his ancestors slaves.
There were plenty of slaves in the North, too.
You just don’t hear that much about them because it messes up the narrative.
What narrative?
Southerners are evil, Northerners are virtuous.
Wow, isn’t that interesting.
I don’t see anyone pushing that narrative.
Yeah. Brazil got TEN TIMES as many slaves as the US yet they don’t have a permanent race problem.
Why is that do you suppose?
*cough* democrats *cough*
Racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic, ignorant, incestuous, xenophobic White Southerners with poor dental hygiene and personal habits who cling to God and their guns.
That narrative.
Really??? Remarkable!
Go buy a Confederate battle flag and get back to me, m’kay?
Slavery also didn’t end in Brazil until the 1880s.
And yet the Brazilian flag isnt banned and the Olympics are going to be held there too!
And the Confederate flag—They cling to that, too.
That seems like a silly narrative to me - I wouldn’t push it if I were you.
The DemocRAT Party and the media are, and have been, pushing that narrative.
Or were you asleep all of last week?
Do you mean ‘I wouldn’t notice it if I were you’?
Have you ever lived in the south?
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