An interesting and informative post.
RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM A FRIEND WHICH CONTAINED SEVERAL PICTURES SHOWING BLACKS IN AMERICA. IT HAD THE FOLLOWING HEADING: Know thy History, Know Thyself…….
Being curious I Googled: How many slaves shipped from Africa?
The astounding results shown below the picture.
The actual number of men, women and children who were snatched from their homes in Africa and transported in slave ships across the Atlantic, either to the Caribbean islands or to North and South America, will never be known. Writers vary in their estimates, but there is no doubt that their number runs into millions. The following figures are taken from Morel’s calculations as reproduced by Professor Melville J. Herskovits and cover the period 1666-1800:
1666-1776: Slaves imported only by the English for the English, French and Spanish colonies:
3 million (250,000 died on the voyage).
1680-1786: Slaves imported for the English colonies in America:
2,130,000 (Jamaica alone…
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