The Big Lie of Slavery

The slave trade was the worst human-inflicted atrocity ever.

Jeffrey Kass
ZORA
Published in
5 min readJun 15, 2023

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The slave deck of the ship ‘Wildfire’ captured transporting slaves 510 captives from Africa to the Caribbean, Wood engraving after daguerreotype made in Key West on April 30, 1860 with modern color.
Image: Shutterstock/Everett Collection

It’s been repeated so many times that we accept as historical fact that about 15 million Africans died in the transatlantic slave trade over a period of 250 years.

This figure is reported by everyone from the United Nations to African Studies departments at major universities. I learned this figure…

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Jeffrey Kass
ZORA
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