When the slavery issue comes up here’s a posting which offers the facts;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3818053/posts
Thanks for that link with Morgan Freeman’s comments. (Hmm - Freeman. I wonder if that is his real last name? Would be cool if it is.)
One of the charts though is wrong. The one talking about how many slaves were brought to the Americas from 1619 to 1875. Or at least it could be clearer. The USA stopped bringing in new slaves in 1808. So that meant our slaves were taken care of even better after that so that they would stay healthy and have families-so their kids could be slaves :(