OVER 500 MILLION AFRICANS KILLED
Decolonizing the Gaslighting About the Transatlantic Slave Trade
This genocide began with the Christian decree by Pope Nicholas V:
In 1452, Pope Nicholas V issued the papal bull Dum Diversas,
authorizing Portugal to “invade, search out, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Saracens and pagans” and to “reduce their persons to perpetual slavery.”
This “Doctrine of Discovery” provided the religious and legal framework for centuries of African enslavement and land theft.
This is not a demographic estimate. This is forensic accounting of the largest and longest genocide in human history.
THE FACT THEY DON’T TEACH
The transatlantic slave trade system killed over 500 million Africans between the 15th and early 20th centuries.
This figure is not an estimate from a single method, but the convergent truth revealed by multiple undeniable forms of evidence.
While history books sanitize it as “12 million shipped,” the real number—the human cost—was 500 million lives destroyed.
THE PAPAL SANCTION THAT LAUNCHED THE GENOCIDE
In 1452, Pope Nicholas V issued Dum Diversas, granting King Afonso V of Portugal the right in Africa to:
- To conquer “Saracens, pagans, and other enemies of Christ”
- To seize their lands and property
- To reduce them to perpetual slavery
This Christian papal decree provided the theological justification for four centuries of African enslavement and genocide.
What began as a “religious authorization” became the legal and moral framework for Europe’s assault on Africa.
FOUR CONVERGING LINES OF EVIDENCE
1. THE EVIDENCE OF THE SHIPS
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35,000+ documented slave voyages – each a floating grave
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35,000+ undocumented voyages – smuggling, illegal trade, lost records
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For every person who survived the Middle Passage, at least one died (scholarly consensus)
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Millions more died before boarding – in raids, marches, and holding barracks
(documented + undocumented)
“The naval logs show the method. The unrecorded voyages show the cover-up.”
2. THE EVIDENCE OF THE GENOCIDE: BACKWARD POPULATION CALCULATION
Africa’s population in 1900: Estimated ~110 million
Normal growth projection from 1500: Estimated ~600+ million
Missing by 1900: 590+ million people
When you account for 400 years of compounded genocide in missing growth, the total GENOCIDE exceeds 500 million African lives.
after 400 years of compounded Enslavement and GENOCIDE
“Demography doesn’t lie. Africa’s flat population line for centuries is impossible without massive European slave trade and continuous African Continental GENOCIDE.”
3. A EUROPEAN-MADE CONTINENTAL CATASTROPHE
+470% growth
+280% growth
+275% recovery
0% real growth
“This continental divergence is not coincidence. It is causation by European GENOCIDE design.”
4. THE ONGOING DEMOGRAPHIC TESTIMONY
The ships prove the method.
The population math proves the scale.
The continental stagnation proves the cause as the European Slave Trade of African.
These four lines of evidence converge to reveal the truth: 500 million Africans were killed during the transatlantic slave trade.
The evidence is forensic, mathematical, and undeniable.
THE DAILY REALITY OF 500 MILLION
This was not a single event. This was a continuous, industrial-scale killing operation that operated daily for centuries.
A continental-scale demographic eradication masked as “commerce.”
500 MILLION IS THE NUMBER THE SILENCE HOLDS
It is the void that remains when history is counted without gaslighting.
The 12-15 million shipped is the colonizer’s ledger.
The 500 million killed is Africa’s testimony.
Therefore, the claim of 500 million Africans killed is not rhetoric.
It is forensics.
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