Total number of slaves who died over several centuries during the Middle Passage and were tossed overboard is probably about a million.
http://users.rcn.com/mwhite28/warstatv.htm
Something like three Africans total died for every two who entered slavery in the New World, but most died in Africa or after arrival.
Interestingly, immigrant ships crossing the Atlantic usually had a higher death rate than slave ships. Immigrants had already paid for their passage. The shipowners actually made more money if they died. The only way slavers could get paid was if semi-healthy slaves survived to be sold on the other side of the pond.
Another almost unknown fact about African slavery: less than 5% of slaves shipped across the Atlantic were brought to what is now the US. Yet somehow the US bears primary responsibility for the practice in the eyes of the world. Nobody ever demands reparations from Brazil or Cuba.
It’s time to end the whining. It’s growing old, very, very old.
Probably, just my opinion, but I think the reason for that is America took a civil war and about a couple of decades to caught up with the rest of the world in outlawing slavery
Nobody ever demands reparations from Brazil or Cuba.
Yeah, I'm waiting for the call for reparation from the African countries where tribal leaders sold their own people into slavery
That’s because Brazil and Cuba don’t have the deep pockets the US does, or the guilty white population.