We certainly have to take into account the number of Africans who were killed in the many wars in Africa over 300 years, and this puts the number up further.  We must see enslavement and death on plantations as a crime just as the transporting of Africans to the West. Enslavement was life imprisonment.

 

The number of those killed in the holocaust is calculated not by the number of the people who were transported to Nazi camps but by the millions who were killed  - died there over 8 or more years.

 

My view is that it is misleading to just quote 12 or 13 million Africans transported to the West on slave ships, and fail to talk about those who were also killed in Africa and those who died on plantations in the Americas and the West Indies during the enslavement era.
 
arthur

 
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:24:44 +0000
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Subject: Re: Slave Museum in Ghana
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I have argued that probably one could almost double the figure of 13 million, to include the numbers killed in the process of enslavement, in the march to the coast and while awaiting shipment. And that not only this depopulation but the warfare, the enslavement of one ethnic group by another caused horrific damage then  - and now….

Marika

 

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I am always annoyed when a figure (in this case 13 million) is given for the number of Africans enslaved and shipped to the West. Should we not estimate the number of those who died in enslavement (imprisonment) over 300 hundred years? Such a figure will better show the brutality of this crime against humanity.
 
arthur