WHY NOT READ THE REAL STORY
'Even at the peak of Atlantic slave trade, Africans retained more slaves for themselves than they sent to the Western Hemisphere.
'Even at the peak of Atlantic slave trade, Africans retained more slaves for themselves than they sent to the Western Hemisphere.
'This pattern was not confined to West Africa......
'...death rates among the white crews of the ships carrying slaves to the Western Hemisphere were as high as the death rates among the slaves themselves. p., 120, 121.
Just to put these numbers into some perspective, the Africans retained for their own use the majority of their slaves.
Of the minority they sold to whites, 90% of those went elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere than to North America.
Thus, doing the math, of the total number of all African slaves, a very small percentage ended up sent to North America, less than 5% of the combined total.
Given the remoteness from the coast of the great majority of African slaving tribes, maybe the numbers sent to North America are substantially less, 3%, or even less than 1% of the total of all enslaved in Africa.
Just to put these numbers into some perspective, the Africans retained for their own use the majority of their slaves.
Of the minority they sold to whites, 90% of those went elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere than to North America.
Thus, doing the math, of the total number of all African slaves, a very small percentage ended up sent to North America, less than 5% of the combined total.
Given the remoteness from the coast of the great majority of African slaving tribes, maybe the numbers sent to North America are substantially less, 3%, or even less than 1% of the total of all enslaved in Africa.
Oddly, Sowell does not seem to mention white indentured servitude, although almost half of them who came were in bondage. Wonder why?
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