American Holocaust

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45. Not nearly as many (which doesn't minimize anything)

First, the numbers are smaller in general. I don't recall, but I think the slave population was 2-3 million. (From those recent stories comparing number of incarcerated AA's today vs. slave population) Maybe that was 2-3 million men.

Either way, I think the black population is a lot higher than the native American population (in the US) and the US native American population was surely a lot higher than the slave population.

Enslavement and extermination are very different dynamics. A death toll is not the only measure of a moral crime.

Most slave trade deaths were in transit. After arrival the mortality of enslaved persons was probably lower than, say, transported convicts in Australia. Not because slave-holders were nice, but because slaves were a valuable comodity that exploiters did not destroy casually.

The murder rate of black Americans almost surely went way up after emancipation.

(I think the top decade for lynching was the 1920s, for instance.)