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UN Panel Decides America Owes Black People Reparations for 'Racial Terrorism' of the Past

If I recall properly, the US accounted for about 3% of the total slave trade.

At worst we are on the hook for 3% of the total.

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Nice map, but a bit misleading. It is true that less than 5% of the cross-Atlantic slave trade went to the United States. And it is roughly true that this trade existed from roughly 1500 AD (after the Reconquista, and Spain and Portugal's desire to inflict slavery on the African continent - that had enslaved their people for over 500 years) to 1850 AD (the map says 1900 AD, but since the British Navy actively sought out, and stopped, slave ships shortly after 1800 AD, the numbers after ~1820 have to be very low).

On the other hand, showing a limited slave trade from Africa to the Muslim countries is a crock. They were/are pushing slavery from 650AD to today. The South African army forced Ethiopia (Abyssinia) to outlaw slavery after WWII. Saudi Arabia did not outlaw slavery until 1962 (under pressure from the West). Muslim Northern Sudan enslaves Christians and animists from the South today.
The slave lines to the Muslim world, on that map, should be much thicker and pronounced. The reason there aren't that many black skinned people in those Arab countries is because they castrated the males, and killed the babies of the concubines.

Peter Hammond had some good talks on this subject.

What you have not been told about Slavery

If I recall properly, the US accounted for about 3% of the total slave trade.

That’s because the slaves went to where they could produce the most value for their owners. We tend to forget that sugar was the big money maker in the day, so slaves went where sugar could be produced. At one point Britain traded Florida to get Jamaica because there was so much money to be made. Only after the invention of the cotton gin could slaves produce big money in what is the U.S. and by that time the international slave trade was being slowed by the Royal Navy.

It is ironic and interesting that the places where the most slaves ended up are now desperately poor nations and the blacks who live in the US are much better off because their ancestors were sent here as opposed to the Caribbean or Brazil.