8 European Nations That Hold ‘World Records’ for the Mistreatment of Black People

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Most Kidnappings of Africans

From the 15th to 19th century, the Portuguese exported 4.7 million enslaved Africans to the Americas, making it Europe’s largest trafficker of human beings.

 

First Death Camps

Between 1904 and 1908, before German death camps were used to kill Jews in Nazi Germany, as many as 65,000 Herero (80 percent of the total Herero population) and 10,000 Namaqua (50 percent of the total Namaqua population) either starved, died of thirst or were worked to death in German death camps in Namibia.

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