Pat Buchanan says slavery reparations not needed because more 'Americans' died during Civil War than there were slaves
Conservative political pundit Pat Buchanan this week took a questionable mathematical approach to arguing against proposals that the U.S. government should provide reparations to descendants of slaves, claiming there is no need for such a program because the number of soldiers who died in the Civil War is more than the number of people brought across the ocean in chains.
It's unclear where Buchanan gets his numbers from. According to data from the heavily researched Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, the total number of African slaves brought to American shores is closer to 390,000 . The 1860 U.S. census calculated the total number of slaves at 3.95 million nationwide, compared to"Free Color Population" totaling fewer than 500,000. Thus, while the number of dead soldiers may have been greater than the number of people originally brought over from Africa, it still pales in comparison to those kept in slavery.
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