11-13 million slaves transported from Africa.
Transported to the English colonies, all 25 to 31 or 32 of them, about 660-700,000. Of those, about half to the 13 North American colonies. Approximately 330-350,000
Henry Lewis Gates Jr puts the number a little higher, 388,000 to the 13 colonies, of 10.7 million surviving the passage, just over 3.5%.
England banned slavery in 1833/34, Parliament/Royal Assent. Though it continued in parts of the Empire in different forms. Australia banned slavery in 1901, indentured servitude in 1972 (?)
Vermont banned slavery in 1777, by 1804 all northern states had banned slavery.
It's not about ignoring history but distorting it. The US was a very small part of what was a lynchpin of not only the Empire, but the powerful European nations.
Massachusetts was the first to my knowledge to attempt to ban slavery. Mid 1760s.
It was met with a veto directed from across the sea. Who’s fault was that?
Virginia was another who tried banning slavery, but was also met with a veto from across the sea.
Who’s fault was that?
We were on the front lines. Our Founders were correct on the issue of slavery. The British Empire were the bad guys who forced it on us.
Vermont banned slavery in 1777, by 1804 all northern states had banned slavery.
Vermont was not a state of the United States in 1777. It was part of New York until, in 1777, Vermont declared its independence, seceded, and waged a successful rebellion. In so doing, Vermont became a free and independent state (aka Vermont Republic or Commonwealth of Vermont) until it joined the union in 1791. It was as an independent state or republic that Vermont did, indeed, prohibit slavery in 1777.
Vermont v. New Hampshire, 289 U.S. 593, 607-608 (1933)
Vermont was admitted to the union in 1791 as "an independent state with self-constituted boundaries."