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This was already a well known fact but then again I actually paid attention in school. Further more the notion that less than 1% is "high" by the OP is absurd. The fact of the matter is whites in America were the ones most responsible for slavery in America and the brutal mistreatment and physical abuse of not just black slaves, but blacks period.
It is a modern day myth that slavery only involved white Americans enslaving blacks. In fact, almost all American slaves were first enslaved by black Africans before being sold to white Americans. Slavery was a way of life for Africans. That is why they rarely rebelled against their slave-owners and why they were so highly prized as slaves. It would not have been against most black Americans' consciousness to enslave a fellow black.
Slavery is not race-specific. People have enslaved other people in general for eons. People think only black people were slaves, but that's totally untrue. I bet even the Neanderthals had slaves. It is part of the dark side of humanity, and even though we don't commonly own each other anymore, we still try very hard to control each other.
Slavery in the United States was very much race-specific regardless of the "race" of the owner.
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People have enslaved other people in general for eons. People think only black people were slaves, but that's totally untrue.
Considering that anyone even vaguely familiar with the Torah, Bible or the Koran, or who has ever watched a sandals and sand movie, which pretty much covers 99.9% of the American public, are well aware that slavery encompassed far more people than Africans.
The thing is that the Irish slave trade largely ended by the early 18th century. The number of Irish slaves in the US was never very large because they could very easily escape and blend into the general population in a very sparsely settled hinterland with numerous small cities and large towns full of new comers. Most Irish slaves were sent to the islands where they couldn't escape so easily because of the plantation economies that developed there much earlier than on the mainland.
The African slave trade in what is the US continued throughout the 18th century, and even into the 19th, and the numbers of slaves in the US exploded after 1800 because of the expansion of the cotton industry. Mainland planters favored Africans because by the late seventeenth century it was assumed that all blacks were slaves or escaped slaves, so escape was much harder. Most of the "free people of color" at this time were mixed race people, some being descended from white mothers and black fathers, the mothers usually being indentured servants.
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