Do you know what they base those estimates on?
I worked as a professional scientist for 27 years. Did research, was published - the whole shebang.
Science is NOT about coming up with the best explanations, no bias. That is a middle school understanding of science and it's wrong...
Historically slavery did not view the enslaved as subhuman. That was an artifact of the industrial slavery that was especially prominent in the American South and in the Caribbean. Unfortunately we still bear the scars from that designation of the enslaved negro as a lesser form of humanity.
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So if I buy a suppressor in Texas and keep it in Texas and only shoot it in Texas, I don't have to pay the $200 federal tax stamp. 😀
Or worry about being a felon in New York State.
In Africa before European industrial slavery, enslavement was a punishment that was equal to execution. It wasn't meted out for petty theft for instance.
What if their enslavement was voluntary?