From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2001 - 20:15:08 MDT
Jerry Mitchell writes
> Al Villalobos wrote
>> Slave Imports into the Americas, 1500-1870
>> British North America 523,000
>> Spanish America 1,687,000
>> British Caribbean 2,443,000
>> French Caribbean 1,655,000
>> Dutch Caribbean 500,000
>> Danish Caribbean 50,000
>> Brazil 4,190,000
>> Old World 297,000
>> Total 11,345,000
(evidently taken from http://www.hfac.uh.edu/gl/us3.htm)
> What do these numbers here mean? The big number I'm concerned with
> is Brazil. Does this mean slaves were brought from Brazil into North
> America? [No.] Or from Africa into Brazil? [Yes.] If these are the
> numbers brought into Brazil, which set of these constitute the present
> day US?
(A) No one brings slaves into present day U.S.
(B) British North America had better include the U.S. or I'll
feel lied to.
> I'm thinking Brit and Spanish America? So that puts the US at
> responsible for a little over 2 million total [slaves transported]?
> I can buy that number a LOT better then 10-25 million dead!?
Yeah, so far that claim certainly seems exaggerated. But, Jerry,
you can check out the URLs provided by Al Villalobos yourself.
I just found an interesting table (thanks to Al):
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/wm/58.1/eltis_tab1.html
According to that table (it's really very interesting, check it out),
of the volume of the transatlantic slave trade from Africa by *carrier*,
U.S. ships were less than 2.5% of the total. But from the above table
(see the very top of this post, not the URL) evidently about 5% of
the slaves carried across the Atlantic ended up in the U.S. I would
have thought it to be much greater. I agree, the table is not as clear
as it could be (again, see the table quoted at the very top of this
post). I suppose we can consult exactly where Al got the info, namely
http://www.hfac.uh.edu/gl/us3.htm
Lee
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