[massgopguy]

Should read: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade under Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal starts in 1440. Has monopoly until 1660. the United States did not start it. In fact it was in the United States from 1789-1863. Remarkably it continued in Portugal until 1880.

[Gondring]

Should read: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade under Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal starts in 1440. Has monopoly until 1660. the United States did not start it. In fact it was in the United States from 1789-1863. Remarkably it continued in Portugal until 1880.

Actually, you mean "Atlantic"...not "Trans-Atlantic."

Trans-Atlantic to Cuba and Hispaniola was begun by the Spanish, around the turn of the century (i.e., early 1500s). The Dutch were the first to bring slaves to what is now the US.

[peeps36]

I can’t count how many times I see some moron on TV acting as if America created slavery. They blame America for every bad thing connected to slavery but can never seem to give it credit for ending it. They seem to forget it was the blood of white American men that paid the high price of ending slavery.