Patrick Byrne

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Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne

Of the 10.5 million sent to the New World: 6 million came to what became Brazil; 320,000 - 350,000 came to what became the USA. The other roughly 4 million were scattered across the rest of the Caribbean and Americas. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 14, 2023

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Our involvement with slavery was also reprehensible. Europeans enslaved 10.5 million Africans in the ATLANTIC slave trade. NB In comparison: Africans enslaved 1.5 million Europeans ("Barbary Pirates"); Muslims enslaved 50 million Africans after Muhammad endorsed the project. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 14, 2023

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In an act of remarkable scholarship, WEB Du Bois first calculated that 320,000 number. A century later, Harvard's Chair of African American Studies Dr. Henry Louis Gates (@HenryLouisGates) revisited the work of Du Bois, and discovered it had been stunningly accurate Du Bois. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 14, 2023