This is not know by enough people : the Barbary slave trade etc

[SomeJackleg]

And the Arab slave trade, and the British crusade against slavery!  I was never thaught this is school. I left HS in 1990, and was only taught about Dutch history. I hated history because of it, as it was too boring! I wanted them to include world history, but don't recall that every being part of the curriculum.

Anyway. I think as the 1% want to keep us as divide as possible we should try to spread this truth far and wide.






MSM would never cover this 

here is a fact / estimate that seems to have been scrubbed from most of net, and the U.S. is not the the big bad slaver nation it is portrayed as in the rest of the world.

a article from Henry Louis Gates Jr., you know the black guy that digs up peoples ancestors history on PBS.

The most comprehensive analysis of shipping records over the course of the slave trade is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, edited by professors David Eltis and David Richardson. (While the editors are careful to say that all of their figures are estimates, I believe that they are the best estimates that we have, the proverbial "gold standard" in the field of the study of the slave trade.) Between 1525 and 1866, in the entire history of the slave trade to the New World, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World. 10.7 million survived the dreaded Middle Passage, disembarking in North America, the Caribbean and South America. 

And how many of these 10.7 million Africans were shipped directly to North America? Only about 388,000. That's right: a tiny percentage. 

In fact, the overwhelming percentage of the African slaves were shipped directly to the Caribbean and South America; Brazil received 4.86 million Africans alone! Some scholars estimate that another 60,000 to 70,000 Africans ended up in the United States after touching down in the Caribbean first, so that would bring the total to approximately 450,000 Africans who arrived in the United States over the course of the slave trade. 

How Many Slaves Landed in the US?

another thing, the U..S. Constitution had a clause in it that stated the Federal Government could not ban the slave trade for 20 years.

Article I  

• Section 9 Powers Denied Congress
• • Clause 1 Migration or Importation
    
  • The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
    • ArtI.S9.C1.1  Restrictions on the Slave Trade
      

Article I        Section 9 Powers Denied Congress

my understanding the reason for this is that before independence much of the U.S. economy was based out of the south and slave labor was the means for it. if slavery was banned from the start the u.S. econmy would have suffered tremendously and that would have been good for a fledgling nation. granted slave trade between the states in the south carried on until the civil war was over, but the U.S. was not a big importer of slaves, the number of slave grew to the fact slaves were having youngins who became slaves themselves.

but as it stands the U.S. took steps before any other nation to end the Trans Atlantic slave trade long before any other nation did. no matter what the Uk government wants to claim, and was not a big importer of slaves from the get go. that dishonor belongs to Portugal, and the UK who did their damnest to become number one, they just didn't have the same amount of time
Portugal did, they imported slaves for 400 years, they started in 1444 in europe and then in 1526 to Brazil, the Uk depending on what date you want to go with started in 1562 by john hawkins, or 1618 by king james when the crown started granting slave trade companies.