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The publication I have before me iş "The Historical Atlas of the United States" published by the National Geographic Society in 1988. It is an atlas sized book of 285 pages with full color maps and extensive documentation, charts, graphs, etc.

The total number of Africans brought to colonial America as slaves was 399,000. Page 40 under "African immigration in chains". The height of the slave population in this country was in 1830. The population of slaves had grown to 2,000,000 individuals. Same page and story.

Here is the eye opener. The Total number of Africans imported into Spanish America..................

(Cuba, Mexico, Central America and South America) was 1,552,100.

British Caribbean (Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Jamaica, Honduras) was 1,665,000.

Danish Caribbean Leeward Islands) 28,000.

French Caribbean Surinam, Guyana) 1,600,200.

Dutch Caribbean (Aruba and Leeward Islands) 500,000.

Brazil imported a total of 3,646,800 Africans into their country as slaves.

About 6% of the total slavery into the western hemisphere ostensibly ended up in the United States and of course slavery as an institution was still carried on in the eastern hemishere by Africans themselves.....yet when one is reminded of this terrible Scourge on the history of mankind we somehow seem to only be reminded of the evilness of the slave trade in the U.S.A. This also dispells the notion, promulgated by some, that slavery was somehow responsible for the economic success of this nation. If that is the case why isn't Brazil such an economic dynamo.....0r Aruba.....0r....you get my meaning.

This information should probably be presented when discussing reparations! I originally wrote this about ten years ago and I see this stupid idea is beginning to crop up once more.