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YN -> RE: UK apology for India massacre? (2/23/2013 1:36:26 PM)
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There is a consortium of academics attempting to produce a model of the total slave trade, and as I noted earlier, trying to produce a figure for the total slave trade and it's casualty count is being done by modeling, and trying to match tax, census and other records with the known death tolls and the death percentages of each step in this trade, offsetting it by the likely or recorded slave reproduction rates for the number of known female slaves . Trying to accurately figure the German death toll which occurred in living memory was difficult, and that is simple next to the things happening and the anarchy in the Americas several hundred years ago.
Remember, the several million slaves in North America are claimed to be only about 5% of the total distributed, and it is generally agreed that at least one African died for each one successfully shipped, broken and on the plantation, though most think the proper range is 2-5 deaths per slave.
At any rate it is like calculating the number of cattle or hogs in the America s during the last five centuries, no number is likely to be perfect, but that is how African slaves were treated and viewed at the times.
As I noted if the English feel shorted by the conservation estimates being calculated, perhaps the top end of the scale is more to their liking.
And the Africans are not the first I think the Cherokee or their neighbors were the first slaves the English used and this only stopped after a war with the Indians convinced them it was good for their health to cease the practice, during the early 1700s.
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Historians have estimated that tens of thousands of Native Americans were enslaved. It is estimated that Carolina traders operating out of Charles Town shipped an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 Native American captives between 1670 and 1715 in a profitable slave trade with the Caribbean, Spanish Hispaniola, and Northern colonies. Because it was more profitable to have Native American slaves, whites in the Northern colonies sometimes preferred Native American slaves, especially Native women and children, to Africans. Prior to 1720, when it ended the Native American slave trade, Carolina exported as many or more Native American slaves than it imported Africans. The usual exchange rate of captive Native Americans for enslaved Africans during this time period was two or three Native Americans to one African. In the Southwest, Spanish colonists and Native Americans sold or traded slaves at many of the trade fairs along the Rio Grande.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_among_Native_Americans_in_the_United_States
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