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Mr Stephen J. Thomas
“From the 16th to the 19th centuries a total of 10.7 million slaves survived the Atlantic crossing from Africa to the Americas, and (according to recent calculations by historians David Eltis and José Flávio Motta) nearly half of them were shipped to Brazil. Thus, over 350 years, nearly 5 million slaves landed in Brazil. The British colonies in North America and the United States of America probably imported only around one tenth of this number. By 1850 there were 2.5 million slaves in the country and the 1872 census reported that around 58 per cent of the population were of African descent (whether slaves or free men).”
― Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged
― Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged
“His grandfather, he said, was from a traveling family—part of a group called the “Gringos”—signifying, here, not unwanted Americans but Greek-speaking Gypsies in Spain.”
― Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and their Journey
― Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and their Journey
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