Can we admit finally that sexism was a huge problem in both 2008 and 2016 elections

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100. Millions died in the Middle Passage

as much as 60% of those captured, according to a study of the Angolan Trade. 10 million is the conservative estimate. Deaths from the transatlantic slave trade are traditionally greatly underestimated, due in part to the level of fraud which meant ship rosters under reported the numbers transported and died.

This image appears on T shirts with the caption African Holocaust.

What most people don't realize is that diagram was presented before British parliament as an example of an ideal way to pack slave ships, so as to minimize over packing and hence deaths ( ie. profits). But many if not most slave traders judged their profits were greater by loading as many captives as possible on to ships and sustaining high death rates rather than transporting fewer in the more efficient method that image was meant to encourage. The narrative of Oludah Equiano gives a chilling account of the Middle Passage.

And of course rape was endemic in American slavery, as every single narrative by a formerly enslaved woman recounts. Of course that extended throughout the Atlantic slave system.