..the 400th anniversary of the arrival in America of the first enslaved people from West Africa.
1. There was no America then, we were still a British colony.
2. Subtract the number of slaves that were brought to what is now the USA from the total number taken from Africa. Save you the math - something like only 9% came here. Where did the other 90+% go? Hint - Central and South America.
3. Another bothersome fact - how did a few hundred Dutch traders armed only with flint-lock rifles go to the interior of Africa and capture hundreds of thousands of slaves? Hint, they didn’t. They only traded for them on the coast, while other Africans went inland and captured them.
4. But of course white male Americans are responsible for all of this.
“....only with flint-lock rifles ....”
Flintlock??? Try matchlock ! Plus the challenge of keeping the match lit in a humid tropical environment!