Slate.com: Haunting animation maps the journey of 15,790 slave ships in two minutes
The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes, 315 years. 20,528 voyages. Millions of lives.; http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_slavery/2015/06/animated_interactive_of_the_history_of_the_atlantic_slave_trade.html, dated June 25th 2015
The concluding part of the article states, "By the conclusion of the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the end of the 19th century, Europeans had enslaved and transported more than 12.5 million Africans. At least 2 million, historians estimate, didn’t survive the journey."
Ravi: Perhaps the worst human rights crime committed in human history by a large ethnic group of people against another large ethnic group of people is slavery committed by Europeans against Africans. I was not aware, prior to reading the above mentioned article that most of the slave trade was from Africa to Brazil, the Caribbean and Spanish Central America, with (African) slavery in/to USA forming only around a small 4 percent of the total (African) slavery in/to the Western hemisphere (North America & South America).
The concluding part of the article states, "By the conclusion of the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the end of the 19th century, Europeans had enslaved and transported more than 12.5 million Africans. At least 2 million, historians estimate, didn’t survive the journey."
Ravi: Perhaps the worst human rights crime committed in human history by a large ethnic group of people against another large ethnic group of people is slavery committed by Europeans against Africans. I was not aware, prior to reading the above mentioned article that most of the slave trade was from Africa to Brazil, the Caribbean and Spanish Central America, with (African) slavery in/to USA forming only around a small 4 percent of the total (African) slavery in/to the Western hemisphere (North America & South America).
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