On 2021-04-23 5:32 p.m., Sqwertz wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2021 16:23:28 -0400, Dave Smith wrote:
>
>> Now we have a significant black population, most of which are immigrants
>> from the Caribbean. A lot of them have a chip on their shoulder about
>> slavery, though the slavery of their ancestors several generations
>> happened in their home country.
>
> 25X More slaves were taken from Africa to the Caribbean and South
> America than to the U.S. Yet the U.S. takes, by far, the biggest
> blame for slavery.
>
> Watch the slave ships arrive to the Americas in a fast forward
> real-time diagram he
>
> http://www.slate.com/articles/life/t...ave_trade.html
>



Interesting video. There is no doubt that more ships appear to have
sailed to the Caribbean and Brazil than to the US. Brazil accounted for
40% of all the slaves shipped over from Africa. I watched it twice and
didn't notice any of those ships sailing to Canada. That is pretty much
in line with what I had read about Canadian slavery years ago. There had
been two ship loads of Africans brought over to New France in an
experiment with slavery. It didn't take.

Perhaps the west put the blame on the US because it maintained the
institution for years after others had abolished it. There could be an
element of ignorance to that since so many people are unaware of the
extent of slavery in Brazil.