OK well I take it "funny" is emoticonese for "oh I didn't know that". Very well then.
The whole thread is about america pogo. Goddamn
Who was the biggest contributor of the atlantic slave trade? America
What were you talking about? America and the slave trade
Why did i say that in the last line of my post? BEcause you are trying to spin world history to fit your agenda. The atlantic slave trade was NOTHING special. It was a common occurrence for our species for millennia
You focus on one fuckign word becauyse you lost in substance. Get over it dude. You cant win them all.
"America" comprises two continents. Sometimes we gloss over that in shorthanding the name of our own country but in this case, since you bring up "America and the slave trade" --- it absolutely applies to North, South, Central and Caribbean "America".
You brought up
Brazil --- which imported more slaves than any other country including (what is now) the US (almost
five million brought there) and that began even
before the first Africans were brought to what is now the US in the 1530s (by Spanish merchants).
That's just Brazil alone, then there's Hispaniola. And Jamaica. And the Antilles, and Venezuela and Colombia and Belize and Jamaica and Cuba etc etc etc. Slavery went a whole lot farther than what is now this country's national border --- don't be myopic.
ALL of those countries, and more, received an influx of Africans. All of them have to address whatever legacy that gave them. "America" (as in the US) didn't do that. For 90% of that period, the US didn't even exist.
European economics and colonialism did that.
But NO absolutely NOT, the African slave trade, meaning human trafficking across the Atlantic ocean, was absolutely NOT a "common occurrence" before that. It had
never happened before. That's my whole
point.