About 450,000 African slaves were taken from Africa to North America.

Meanwhile, about 1.25 million Europeans (English, French, Icelandic, Danes, Dutch, Welsh, etc) were taken from Europe to Africa as slaves.

Yes, 1.25 million!!!

See this drawing from 1675 showing the slave journey.

The women were mainly used as sex slaves or domestic servants.

The men as labourers or soldiers, with some undergoing castration and becoming eunuchs.

It was considered a sign of prosperity for an Algerian or Turkish leader to have white skinned eunuchs and female sex slaves.

The punishments for these slaves were horrific. Their noses and ears cut off for misbehaving, shackled in chains.

In many cases they were forced to convert to Islam. Their children were taken from them and often faced a difficult fate as sex slaves.

So, if you want to talk about reparations, let’s start here. //

Simon O'Neill
@simonathletepr
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Sep 20
Some people refuse to believe that Europeans were taken as slaves. They think slavery only began 400 years ago with Europeans taking blacks to the USA. Most black slaves were out in chains by fellow blacks. That is never taught by those seeking reparations. //

Miss Jo
@therealmissjo
I never said that this was the trans Atlantic number.

I said that this was the number that went to North America. About 388,000 went directly and 50,000-70,000 went by way of the Caribbean.

The vast majority ended up in South America and the Caribbean. An incredible number in Brazil. //

₿lockChain ₿ob Charles @BlockChainBobC
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23h
Where are you getting your numbers. The trade in Africans globally went on from the early 1500's and lasted until at least 1870. Over that 300 years there are some estimates as high as 15 million people brought to North America alone. The scale of the slavery does not make… Show more
Miss Jo
@therealmissjo
Sorry that is not true.

The slave trade was from about 1500-1900. 400 years. And in that time about 12 million (some estimates are 10.6 million) were sent across the Atlantic but only a small portion of them went to North America: 388,000 to be precise.

Most were sent to the Caribbean and South America. About another 50k - 70k were sent from the Caribbean on to North America. Hence the 450,000.