Slave Traders Amassed a Fortune Off Black BodiesAccording to a BBC report, between 1761 and 1808, Br
Slave Traders Amassed a Fortune Off Black BodiesAccording to a BBC report, between 1761 and 1808, British traders hauled across the Atlantic 1,428,000 African captives and pocketed $94.4 million – perhaps $10 billion in today’s money – from slave sales. The Enslaved Were an ‘Investment’To get an idea of how valued and valuable to the economy the enslaved were, each one represented as much as $130,000 in today’s prices when the South seceded from the Union. Significantly, this was two times as much from 14 years before — a true measure of the impact of the enslaved and the increased demand in the marketplace. According to economists, this alone would crystalize how “investing” in an enslaved person was a money-maker that drove business. Read More: http://bit.ly/1BsxJYn -- source link
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