the glaring omission here is the over 200 year period of free issue blacks. in the late 1600's laws were passed that children were born with the status of their mother, and the parallel "collusion" of free white indentured women, and indigenous women with enslaved african men, and said africans eventually being able to buy their wives out of slavery, resulting in birthing legally free children. for over 2 centuries before the civil war. the right of free blacks to vote, own land and businesses, the skill trades that never went beyond free black families making them indispensable. on top of manumission (legally freeing from slavery) for black revolutionary war vets. the 'blacks built america' theme belongs with this community not slaves as in 'slaves built america' because it required skills that were not being shared around. believe it or not that social tier came to an end with the 14th amendment. i could go on and on about this, but yea. you left some shyt outc'mon now.
slave sales within the americas was not an outlier. slaves arrived in the colonies right up until the ban (and even illegally after it).
NOTE: chattel slavery started in present south america and the caribbean 100+ years before it did in the usa.
circa 250 years of slavery in the united states (colonies)
circa 400 years for TA slavery overall.
also slaves were sold up into america.
liberian exports from america helped create an entire country.
"Between 1822 and the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, more than 15,000 freed and free-born African Americans, along with 3,198 Afro-Caribbeans, relocated to Liberia"
Liberia - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
how are these things outliers? serious question.
don't do the TLR vanish-when-babble-plus-emoji-fails.
my point in keeping with the thread is that foundational is a weighty term and it means that literally, as a lineage
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