Who enslaved more black people, Hispanic or white people?
This question is based upon a logical malapropism – the assumption that slavery originated in a “White” or “Non-Black” society. I know this probably wasn’t your intention – this is a really heated topic. I’ll try my best to give you some basic, but useful, information. If your question was meant to ask about the enslavement of blacks in the New World, specifically, then the largest importers of slaves to the New World were the Portugese, who controlled 75% of the slave trade until the international agreements ending slavery in the 1840s, and continued to trade in slaves until at least 1890. These are not “Hispanics”, but they are not traditionally regarded as “Caucasian”, or “White Europeans” either. From a broader historical perspective, however, the origins of slavery go back at least 40,000 years to the dawn of civilization (this does not account for the new dating systems being proposed under the New Chronology, or the Megalithic Civilizations which seem to have existed at some poi