[DoughtyOne]

I once heard a very low figure for how many of the worlds slaves at the time, were brought to the territory that was or was to become part of the United States...

Only 5% of the slaves brought to the Western Hemisphere came to North America. The vast majority were sent to the West Indies or South America. The number for what became the USA was between 500-600,000 souls.

I had heard that figure before, but I had thought it referenced the complete body of African people that were taken to be sold as slaves.  Here you address it in terms as if we're only addressing the body of slaves brought to the Western Hemisphere, what I take to mean the Americas.

If the slaves taken to Europe are excluded, then the 5% becomes even less in the overall scheme of things.

If they had stayed or never been brought here, would their fate have been better or worse? By the conditions at the time (1620-1820) they would have likely been dead in inter-tribal wars.

I'm thinking worse, but then I don't have the right to make that call.  Slavers (some of which were African lest we forget) had no right to take those folks out of their tribal communities, no matter what their fate may have been.

You and I share the same thoughts here, so I'm not trying to make a corrective statement here.  Thank you for your response. .

[GladesGuru]

Slaves were often sold by teh”tribal communities” to the slave traders. Slaves were a common commodity throughout human history until England and America used their superior military force to end it.

Now, the Muslim world is slavery’s last stronghold. Please note that the new Egyptian ‘Constitution” allows slaves.

Islam, to know it is to loath it.