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alohaed in Reflections • 2 months ago

The reference to Asians being brought to the Colonies and the US escapes me.

You might find this interesting https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/how-many-slaves-landed-in-the-us/

From the article:

"And how many of these 10.7 million Africans were shipped directly to North America? Only about 388,000. That’s right: a tiny percentage."

~3.7%

Slavery of course is an abomination, and so that was 388,000 too many (along with there descendants) even where I live in the rural Southern United State only a small fraction of the citizens owned slaves.

I have some separate thoughts on Nationalism but wanted to let them properly develop.

Tangentially and bizarrely one of the largest slave owners in North Carolina was himself a former slave - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carruthers_Stanly

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tarazkp 2 months ago

The reference to Asians being brought to the Colonies and the US escapes me.

How is that? In the 1800s, there were apparently about half a million Indian and a quarter million Chinese slaves taken to the US. The East India Company held around about 1.2 million Indian slaves - that company was also delivering tea to Boston ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_India

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alohaed 2 months ago

I'm trying to find accurate counts the Chinese started coming around 1834 with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. California's Constitution of 1849 explicitly barred slavery. There's no doubt they weren't treated well but the number of enslaved seems to be low.

Indian (Asian) Slaves appear to have been more common but not as numerous as African slaves in Colonial America, digging into it looks more confined to the pre-Revolutionary period.

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