Seems I read 388,000 slaves were recorded as being sold to the US. I am wondering how many AAs have actually researched to see if they are directly related to one of them.
If Sanders wants to take the guilt of slavery upon himself we should put him in prison.
Seems I read 388,000 slaves were recorded as being sold to the US. I am wondering how many AAs have actually researched to see if they are directly related to one of them.
Honestly, I bet most are. Who knows how many people think they are “white” and they also have direct genetic ties to American slaves?
“With more than 35,000 slave voyages, human cargo, as they were oft times referred, were imported into the Western Hemisphere during the Atlantic slave trade. A total of approximately 600,000 slaves were imported into the Thirteen Colonies and the U.S, constituting 5% of the estimated eleven million slaves* brought from Africa to the Americas. The majority of African slaves were transported to sugar colonies in the Caribbean and to Brazil. As life expectancy was short, their numbers had to be continually replenished. Because life expectancy was much higher in the U.S. and the slave population began to reproduce, the enslaved population grew rapidly, reaching 4 million by the 1860 U.S. Census. From 1770 until 1860, the rate of natural growth of North American enslaved people was much greater than the growth of the population of any nation in Europe, and was nearly twice as rapid as that of England.”
http://www.thomaslegion.net/americancivilwar/usatlanticslavetradeunitedstates.html