one could find a similar spike in the sugar trade of the Americas, as well as
             the Rum exports from the colonies and the firearm exports from Europe.
             One conclusion that might be drawn is that, in reducing the estimated total export of slaves from about
             twenty million to about ten million, the harm to African societies is also reduced by half. This is obvious
             No global estimate of the slave trade, or of any "underdevelopment" or "underpopulation" it may have
             caused [is] possible to believe or advocate any particular set or range of figures becomes and act of faith
             rather than an epistemologically sound decision.
             Many specialists believe that Curtin's original estimate has to be revised upward.... It seems probable
             that the ultimate figure is unlikely to be less than 12 million or more than 20 million.
             Joseph E. Inikori and Stanley L. Engerman
             How do most people think the slaves were obtai
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