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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (283873)4/12/2006 8:23:53 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1572482
 
"The transatlantic slave trade cost Africa tens of millions of lives..."

1) Yes. Although that figure includes a large number who weren't destined for the US. Which is the topic of discussion.

2) There is a difference between "cost Africa" and being killed.

3) You are counting ones killed in Africa by Africans as being killed by Southern Americans. The slave trade existed in Africa long before Europeans settled in the Americas and continued long after the practice in the Americas was outlawed. In fact, it continues to this day. The British just took advantage of an existing market.

Bottom line, there were far fewer blacks killed over the 4 centuries of the slave trade by whites than the Jews killed by the Nazis. Then when you consider the Romanish, Catholics, Protestants, ones accused as witches, etc. over Europe's pretty bloody history, the US looks like a bastion of tolerance. Even if you throw in the Indian wars and the not so Civil War, Europe has killed off many more for tiny cultural differences.
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