List 6 Startling Things About Sex Farms During Slavery That You May Not Know

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19. I argued with some right wing slavery defenders

quite a while ago who claimed that less than 10 percent of slaves brought to the "new world" were brought to North America. And they were absolutely right.

They were trying to minimize the impact of U.S. slavery but they failed to realize that in the U.S., unlike all other countries in the new world where slavery was practiced, slave owners here concentrated on birthing new slaves which led to the U.S to have the largest slave population in the new world by far even though only a small percentage of total human beings stolen from their homes were brought to our shores.

Slavery is our national disgrace and we've never addressed it in these nearly 500 years other than to excuse it and defend it. Slavery existed almost since man existed but U.S. chattel slavery was the most cruel form of slavery ever known to mankind. It existed long after the Emancipation Proclamation supposedly freed the slaves.

Historical Context: Facts about the Slave Trade and Slavery

"Well over 90 percent of enslaved Africans were imported into the Caribbean and South America. Only about 6 percent of African captives were sent directly to British North America. Yet by 1825, the US had a quarter of blacks in the New World."

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"Slavery in the US was distinctive in the near balance of the sexes and the ability of the slave population to increase its numbers by natural reproduction. Unlike any other slave society, the US had a high and sustained natural increase in the slave population for a more than a century and a half."

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"The domestic slave trade in the US distributed the African American population throughout the South in a migration that greatly surpassed in volume the Atlantic Slave Trade to North America.

Though Congress outlawed the African slave trade in 1808, domestic slave trade flourished, and the slave population in the US nearly tripled over the next 50 years.

The domestic trade continued into the 1860s and displaced approximately 1.2 million men, women, and children, the vast majority of whom were born in America."

https://www.gilderlehrman.org/content/historical-context-facts-about-slave-trade-and-slavery

The Untold History of Post-Civil War 'Neoslavery'

March 25, 200810:00 AM ET
Heard on Talk of the Nation

Slavery By Another Name

"In Slavery by Another Name, Douglas Blackmon of the Wall Street Journal argues that slavery did not end in the United States with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862. He writes that it continued for another 80 years, in what he calls an "Age of Neoslavery."

"The slavery that survived long past emancipation was an offense permitted by the nation," Blackmon writes, "perpetrated across an enormous region over many years and involving thousands of extraordinary characters."

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89051115