Facts You Will Not Learn in History Class
The following nuggets appear in Thomas Sowell’s Economic Facts and Fallacies.
1. From 1500 to 1800 more Europeans were captured and enslaved by Africans (the Barbary Pirates) than Africans were enslaved and sent to America.
2. European slaves were being bought and sold in the Islamic world decades after slavery was abolished in the U.S.
3. Brazil imported [...]