Just the Facts , Please...

Orlando FL

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1) The slave trade was the horrific trafficking of Africans by Africans as slaves to the Americas, Europe and Middle East. Between 1500 AD and 1890 AD, over twenty-two million (22,000,000) Africans were sold into slavery (R.A. Austen 1979). Seven million (6,856,000) were sold east: 3,956,000 were sold across the Sahara and 2,900,000 were sold across the Red sea and the Indian Ocean (R.A. Austen 1979). Fifteen million (15,000,000) were trafficked across the Atlantic. 70% of all Africans sold into slavery in the Americas were transported by Portugal and Britain. Sadly, African nations took part in this Atlantic slave trade. 2) Do you know how many soldiers who gave their lives for slavery were "white?" Officially? 618,222. That means 88% of those who died to free the slaves were WHITE men. THAT'S RIGHT!!!! The war began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861. The war ended in Spring, 1865. Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant. Where's the gratitude??? Who's gonna pay for our ancestor's enormous sacrifices? This DOESN'T COUNT, to what White Americans have done for Black Americans!?!?!?