The Big Lie of Slavery
The slave trade was the worst human-inflicted atrocity ever.
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5 min readJun 15, 2023
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…