Maybe the website you mentioned said that. It’s hard for me to know when you don’t even provide a link. In any case, you’re providing only a tiny snapshot of something much bigger. Did you know, for instance, that:
“By the 1690s, the English were shipping the most slaves from West Africa.[45] They maintained this position during the 18th century, becoming the biggest shippers of slaves across the Atlantic.”[46] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade So the slave shipping trade was largely a Protestant enterprise at that time. Shocking.
“Meltzer also states that 33% of Africans would have died in the first year at the seasoning camps found throughout the Caribbean.[83] Many slaves shipped directly to North America bypassed this process; however, most slaves (destined for island or South American plantations) were likely to be put through this ordeal. The enslaved people were tortured for the purpose of “breaking” them and conditioning them to their new lot in life.[citation needed] Jamaica held one of the most notorious of these camps. Dysentery was the leading cause of death.[86] All in all, 5 million Africans died in these camps, reducing the number of survivors to about 10 million.[83]”
Jamaica was run by Protestants. How many died there I wonder?
I did mention the title of the web page, which should bring it up right up on Google. I can’t copy and paste from my phone so that makes links very hard to get right. From what I’ve seen on this thread’s comments, and even more, from looking into things myself, including more this morning, it seems clear that Catholics were significantly involved in the African slave trade. It would take more research to clear up what can cleared up about specific numbers and parties, like as you mentioned, in Jamaica, but significant Catholic involvement is established. Yet, this article claims to be about “The Catholic Church and slavery,” yet doesn’t address Latin American slavery by Catholics except in passing a few times, and the omission distorts the many conclusions it tries to make while also whitewashing history.