SLAVE TRADING IN AMERICA AND BEYOND , BACK IN THE DAY.

Caribbean Islands imported 3,000,000 slaves Brazil imported 5,000,000 slaves America imported 350,000 slaves Other new world colonies did not have slaves i.e Canada, New Zealand, Australia, etc. The amount of slaves that America imported not not even constitute 3% of the entire trans atlantic slave trade. The United States Census of 1850 was the seventh census of the United States. Conducted by the Census Office, it determined the resident population of the United States to be 23,191,876—an increase of 35.9 percent over the 17,069,453 persons enumerated during the 1840 Census. The total population included 3,204,313 slaves. 13.8% of the population were slaves. So its safe to say that less than 10% of whites in America owned slaves since those who did most likely owned more than one. Many Europeans arrived as indentured servants and had to work a few years for a master to earn their freedom. The first congress of the United States declared that only a "free white man residing in the United States" is eligible to become a citizen - implying many whites were also not free. Slavery was dominant in the south where they simply picked cotton. So then if Slavery made America rich, shouldn't the south have been much more wealthy than the north? It wasn't. Southern per-capita income was only 3/4 of the national average in 1840 and widened in 1860. Infact, the living conditions of southern whites were rather squalid and miserable compared to day laborers living in the north. Slaves in South America and the Caribbean were worked to death and treated as disposable.