You know what? Had it not been for slavery, the blacks in this country would be living among squalor, starvation and a rampant AIDS epidemic in about every country in Africa.
No. If it had not been for slavery, the blacks in this country would not exist.
True. But you get my point.
I get the point you are trying to make, but it is enormously flawed. The couplings among and between African born slaves in America simply would not have been the same couplings if they had never been taken out of Africa. Thus, it is ludicrous to imply that the exact same black person living America today would have been living in Africa if not for slavery. No, that person simply would have never come into existence. Where would Tiger Woods be if not for slavery, African or Korea? The average black American has 20% European blood. The result of America not shipping in slaves would have simply been the near absence of black faces in America with an insignificant effect on the African population.
Think of it like this. White Americans of British descent outnumber British citizens 3 to 1. Does that mean that if America was not colonized, that Britain's population would be three times what it is now? Of course not. When you break of a branch from a bush and plant it, it will grow fast enough to eventually catch up with the original bush. Thus, the American slave trade basically did not significantly result in the reduced number of blacks living in Africa despite resulting in the significant increase in the number of blacks living in America. Without the American slave trade, Africa's population would be pretty much the same today with a miniscule number of different faces.
Also, I have never understood the notion that black Americans should judge their conditions based on African standards. Why should that be the case? Why should I be content my situation simply because my situation may be better that the situation in Africa? The average black person can trace his or her roots on this land at LEAST 200 years. Once those slaves stepped on the shores of this land unwillingly, they, by right, became American citizens and therefore, by right, should have been afforded all rights as American citizens. How they lived before was irrelevant.