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Haiti's slave population so outnumbered the French they were able to revolt and gain their independence. Slaves outnumbered everyone else 10 to 1.
It was nothing unique to the US; it was an Atlantic Slave Trade thing. And yes not only were there more slaves in the Caribbean and South America but those areas were more brutal.
That is flatly untrue. 60% of the new world slaves were in the USA in 1860. More slaves were sent to the rest of the western hemisphere but the US simply reproduced at a higher rate while much of the rest had to import slaves to maintain the population. That is what is different about the US.
That is flatly untrue. 60% of the new world slaves were in the USA in 1860. More slaves were sent to the rest of the western hemisphere but the US simply reproduced at a higher rate while much of the rest had to import slaves to maintain the population. That is what is different about the US.
That's because most New World countries were done with slavery by 1860. You're cherry picking a certain statistic. We were very late to end slavery. At that point we were only 5 years from ending it. Pretty sure the only country to last longer than us was Brazil.
If you're looking at how many slaves were IMPORTED we did not get the most. Slaves having babies was kind of out of our control but as far as the slave trade of actually bringing people straight here the Caribbean and South America by far got the most.
Pretty scary stuff. I'm completely baffled at the ignorance of people. I'm not a super well read guy, but man. The things I'm hearing and reading lately. I mean slavery has been around in some form or another since man started walking upright. I'm guessing that the people that built the pyramids probably didn't have a union steward.
Pretty scary stuff. I'm completely baffled at the ignorance of people. I'm not a super well read guy, but man. The things I'm hearing and reading lately. I mean slavery has been around in some form or another since man started walking upright. I'm guessing that the people that built the pyramids probably didn't have a union steward.
Slavery will probably continue to exist around the world in some form or another as long as there are Homo sapiens sapiens living on it, sad but true.
That's because most New World countries were done with slavery by 1860. You're cherry picking a certain statistic. We were very late to end slavery. At that point we were only 5 years from ending it. Pretty sure the only country to last longer than us was Brazil.
If you're looking at how many slaves were IMPORTED we did not get the most. Slaves having babies was kind of out of our control but as far as the slave trade of actually bringing people straight here the Caribbean and South America by far got the most.
Nope.
Dutch Colonies - 1863
Spanish Colonies:
Puerto Rico - 1873
Cuba - 1886
Brazil - 1888
Those remaining after 1850 included a majority of the slave arrivals. The British and French colonies were gone but the remainder had close to 10 times as many slaves landed as the US...yet the majority of the slaves were in the US.
Dutch Colonies - 1863
Spanish Colonies:
Puerto Rico - 1873
Cuba - 1886
Brazil - 1888
Those remaining after 1850 included a majority of the slave arrivals. The British and French colonies were gone but the remainder had close to 10 times as many slaves landed as the US...yet the majority of the slaves were in the US.
Look - when I said "had more" I meant more imports of slaves. They imported far more into the other colonies than the US. Any reproducing was a different thing than bringing people straight from Africa. That's out of the control of the colonists, while they entirely could control how many they imported.
Anyway, YOU were wrong when you said that the US was a "unique situation." It wasn't. Haiti was essentially a country of slaves, like I said they outnumbered the French 10 to 1. They were able to overtake the colonists and gain independence. The entire Atlantic Slave Trade was "unique" in that it was a systematic trading system of goods and people that lasted for centuries. Americans need to know that while slavery was a dark part of our history, we were NOT the only ones to have it, we didn't have the most slaves coming from Africa, and we didn't have the most brutal system. Slavery was not the worst in the US and we certainly did not invent it.
Yes and no. How defined? As a percent? In the western world?
In the world. What is your point?
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