Fun Fact: There is more Slavery in Africa today than during Colonial America

Fun!!!

This will solve all of our problems

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Only about 388,000 were shipped to North America. That’s right: a tiny percentage.

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shite, did they all migrate to NOLA?

Shhhh get those facts out of here

Libya has actual slave markets.

Thanks, Secretary Clinton.

No way. I was told America was responsible for every slave that ever existed

facts.....they don’t give a frick about your feelings

So who actually sold the african slaves to others? Africans?

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A new study suggests that a million or more European Christians were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa between 1530 and 1780 – a far greater number than had ever been estimated before.

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Davis, by contrast, has calculated that between 1 million and 1.25 million European Christians were captured and forced to work in North Africa from the 16th to 18th centuries

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But from 1500 to 1650, when trans-Atlantic slaving was still in its infancy, more white Christian slaves were probably taken to Barbary than black African slaves to the Americas, according to Davis.

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Ok. Does that somehow make America’s history of slavery OK to you???

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Yes. Slavery has been a fact of life for almost the entirety of human history. I won't make an apologetic for it, but it is nothing to be ashamed of - particularly because it has not existed for 155 years (in America).