Ida Bae Wells

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

"In the mid-18th century, a third of the British merchant fleet was engaged in transporting 50,000 Africans a year to the New World." https://t.co/pFHblNhmOe — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 15, 2022

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

Between the early 1500s and the early 1800s, the slave trade became one of Europe's largest and most profitable industries. Profits from the slave trade were said to run as high as 300 percent." — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 15, 2022

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

"But it wasn't just slave traders or New World planters who benefited from the slave trade. American ship owners, farmers, and fisherman also profited from slavery. Slavery played a pivotal role in the growth of commercial capitalism in the colonies." — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 15, 2022