DB Now this was thee unparraelled uncontestable holocaust of human memory, but without private mass media it remains in the shadows of lesser events.db
AFRICAN HOLOCAUST (MAAFA)
Not Just History, but Legacy
HOW MANY
While traditional studies often focus on official French and British records of how many Africans arrived in the “New World” these studies neglect the death from raids, the fatalities onboard the ships, introduced European diseases, the victims from the consequences of enslavement, the trauma of refugees displaced by slaving activities. The numbers of arrivals also neglects the volume of Africans who arrived via pirate ships who for obvious reasons wouldn’t have kept records. In the centuries of death that surrounded slavery some suggest that a few kings got rich or life in Africa was so horrid that being brought to slave plantations was a progressive life style change. (
See African Kingdoms for Africa prior to slavery)
An often-neglected study within history is the value of
population demographics as a function of time. 30 million people 500 years ago is not equivalent to 30 million people today because 30 million as a percentage of the world population represented 500 years ago is far greater than what it represents today. It is estimated that by the height of the Transatlantic slave trade the population of Africa unlike the rest of the World had stagnated by 50%.
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See How Europe underdeveloped Africa. "Walter Rodney")
Not only was
Transatlantic Slavery of demographic significance, in the aggregate population losses but also in the profound changes to settlement patterns, epidemiological exposure and reproductive and social development potential. Thus Africa's development potential was being experienced outside of Africa, as opposed to inside Africa. This was perhaps the most profound destructive factor to the development of Africa. Systems of enslavement inside of Africa never underdeveloped the continent while the Transatlantic Slave trade did while enriching Europe.
AFRICAN HOLOCAUST - The history of Africa restored