[DeweyCA]

FTA: Arab slave traders removed slaves from Africa for about 13 centuries, compared to three centuries of the Atlantic slave trade. African slaves transported by Arabs across the Sahara Desert died more often than slaves making the Middle Passage to the New World by ship. Slaves invariably died within five years if they worked in the Ottoman Empire's Sahara salt mines."
- Skip -
Harvard's Department of African and African American Studies professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- who also happens to be black -- wrote: "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. In fact, the overwhelming percentage of the African slaves were shipped directly to the Caribbean and South America; Brazil received 4.86 million Africans alone!"

Good stats to show to your kids. They will only hear how the USA is so horrible. Leftists want to tear down (deconstruct) America, so that the kids won't be proud of it and so they then won't be willing to defend its traditional values and institutions.

[rktman]

Thanks. I knew someone had it. And if I remember right, Gates isn't necessarily a friend. Correct as needed. 👍🏼🍿🍻

[nicollo]

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,

Those were the 12.5 mm who made it onto European boats, survivors of the inland-African slave trade that killed upwards 90% of captives as they were taken from their homes in the West African interior to those ports.