Geschätzte Anzahl der nach Amerika gebrachten Sklaven pro Jahr, 1501–1866
Von Whichcar7429
Geschätzte Anzahl der nach Amerika gebrachten Sklaven pro Jahr, 1501–1866
Von Whichcar7429
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Hard to call it beautiful I guess, but it is an interesting graph.
This is a punch in the stomach. Beyond sad.
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Ugh. So the ‚difference‘ is just deaths on board?
A friend of mine does does academic research on the slave trade and shared this with me.
https://www.slavevoyages.org
It was quite a rabbit hole of data on the trade.
I knew the conditions were utterly grueling and inhumane, but I’m genuinely surprised that of 12.5 million enslaved people brought over, an estimated 1.8 million died/were lost before even arriving.
Even if we set aside the human toll and egregious immorality it’s surprising to me that these „traders“ who were clearly more interested in money than morality would allow a rate of death that high. I know they were trying to maximize „cargo“ space and all, but that’s pretty insane, that’s nearly a 15% rate of… I’m sure they’d call it a „loss of investment“.
The decline started right about 1776
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I really wonder who was the devious person who used the term Liberty first? By using that instead of freedom, it ignored the slave problem.
“The Americas” is vague. A graph showing future US states or versus French, British, Spanish and Portuguese colonies would be helpful. Didn’t US importation become illegal in 1806?
Now do the rest of the world