Originally posted by Nay_Sayer
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If you are talking about the Transatlantic Slave Trade than the Portuguese are the most to blame
*The were the first ones to take Slaves from Africa (did it way earlier than the British or French did)....
*They imported more African Slaves to their colonies (Brazil etc) by far than anyone else did....
*They treated Africans Slaves far worse than anyone else did (hence why they kept having to go back to Africa to get more....since the Slaves would die so commonly and so quickly where as the Slaves in America usually lived a full life)....Where as the British saw the slaves more like an economic investment (and so weren't treated nearly as bad).....
*Slavery was not abolished in Brazil until 1888 (23 years after it was abolished in America and their was no war where 600,000 White Brazilians lost their lives to end Slavery)
At the time of the Atlantic Slave Trade (roughly 1650-1865 in America)....America=mostly British Colonists/British people....The "Smorgasbord" of White people now common in America did not come to America until the 1890s' and onward....During the Slave era almost all White Americans were British descent and it was a HEAVILY British influenced country....
The fact that America gets so blamed for Transatlantic Slave Trade (yet never anyone else really) has got to be one of the most ******ed historical revision things I have ever heard....
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