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To: mhking; All
>>>“Beginning in the early 1600s, millions of Africans were brought to this country against their will, auctioned off like cattle, kept in bondage and forced to perform hard labor under the most wicked of institutions. As many aas 25 million lives were lost.<<<

Anyone know how accurate these figures are (setting aside the fact there was no USA until 1776)???

Assuming 1 in 5 died in transit (which I guess is what he is referring to) or even 1 in 4, that would make it a hundred million...I don't think that many whites immigrated here in that time frame.

16 posted on 08/19/2002 5:48:24 AM PDT by fone
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To: fone
Numbers don't matter, silly. When you are debating with somebody who will say with a straight face that sharks still congregate in the waters plied by the slave ships after 200 years because they have an instinctive memory of all the slaves thrown from those ships, you should realize that it is not a rational debate.
18 posted on 08/19/2002 6:43:49 AM PDT by gridlock
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