No one knows how many slaves died while in service, on their way to their destination. Incarceration, torture, starvation, hard labor all contributed. The number of Jews who died during the holocaust is 6Mil+. Horrifying. equally horrifying are the number of American Indians that died due to all of the above. It is estimated in the mid 1400s there close to 12 mil Indians on the US continent. By the late 1890's there were a little over 500,000. And now they are on reservations which is a fancy word for concentration camps.
We always hear our law makers placing emphasis on National Holocaust Day in remembrance of Jews who perished. Meanwhile America has its own holocaust with the sufferings of American Indians; diabetes, alcoholism, heart disease, liver disease. They still live in squalor, sometimes 2, 3 families living under one roof while on the Rez. Attempts on desecrating their lands continue. Shameful, disgusting, appalling.
And we continue to give mega bucks to an Israeli state that is a advocate of ethnic cleansing and nothing is done for our American Indian nations. A huge, huge disconnect.