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| How Many Slaves Landed in the U.S.? |
| 2020-06-17 |
| by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.in African Americans Perhaps you, like me, were raised essentially to think of the slave experience primarily in terms of our black ancestors here in the United States. In other words, slavery was primarily about us, right, from Crispus Attucks and Phillis Wheatley, Benjamin Banneker and Richard Allen, all the way to Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass. Think of this as an instance of what we might think of as African-American exceptionalism. (In other words, if it’s in "the black Experience," it’s got to be about black Americans.) Well, think again. The most comprehensive analysis of shipping records over the course of the slave trade is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, edited by professors David Eltis and David Richardson. (While the editors are careful to say that all of their figures are estimates, I believe that they are the best estimates that we have, the proverbial "gold standard" in the field of the study of the slave trade.) Between 1525 and 1866, in the entire history of the slave trade to the New World, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World. 10.7 million survived the dreaded Middle Passage, disembarking in North America, the Caribbean and South America. And how many of these 10.7 million Africans were shipped directly to North America? Only about 388,000. That’s right: a tiny percentage. 3.6% |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #9 It happens all the time. But then every country does that. The farm boys and certain senators over there try to influence the polity here too. That's routine. So do transcontinental corporations. The supporters of Kamala just went on, knowing she's a loser. They must've found someone else, or they'll wait and cultivate a new asshole. Men like Trump are only good for those people who want accountable, working systems less crooks can feed off from. As you well know, there are many of the other kind, most of them rich. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2020-06-17 15:48 |
| #8 I'm surprised at the number of Indians managing and coordinating the insurrection. You mentioned the back-home support of some Indian-American Democratic candidate during the primaries as I recall. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-06-17 14:43 |
| #7 I think Mr.Kaine is confusing White Guilt with slavery. For that matter, Tim the scholar should read a bit about how Russian (or Polish) nobility treated their serfs. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-06-17 14:39 |
| #6 First slave owner in N.America is attributed to a black man. The Ottoman Empire had more white slaves than the Americas had black slaves. The first african slave was owned by an african. And the only culture that still routinely practices slavery are Arab Muslims. I think Mr.Kaine is confusing White Guilt with slavery. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2020-06-17 14:25 |
| #5 Of course it's the ones who came in later from communist trained polities; and murderous tribal gangsters' families from shitholes who taught the blacks of America this wakandan culture. I think the coloured people of the early 90s were only Americans. Some fine christians too among them. Remember the Azusa street Revival ? It was probably the unchecked influx of Somali and Nigerian bastitches that irrevocably fucked your polity. I may be wrong of course, it had already happened long before anyone really got up and took notice. I'm surprised at the number of Indians managing and coordinating the insurrection. These are all your H1-B ingrates. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2020-06-17 13:07 |
| #4 #1 Sen. Tim Kaine: The United States didn’t inherit slavery from anybody; we created it."" No, it has been around since the dawn of history. So glad this guy did not become Hillary's Veep. Most of the things he says are asinine. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-06-17 10:56 |
| #3 The one drop rule for slavery? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-06-17 08:26 |
| #2 The Europeans were already running plantations in South America and the Caribbean before any touched foot in the North American colonies. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-06-17 07:19 |
| #1 Sen. Tim Kaine: The United States didn’t inherit slavery from anybody; we created it."" |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-06-17 05:53 |