My dates were from when the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade which started in 1444... so that would actually make going on over 400 years. So, I see a bit of projection on your part with you calling me a clown!
Slavery has been conducted for thousands of years all across the globe....
But this is a thread about the US specifically and Columbus didn't even reach the 'New world' until 1492 and the settlements that would go on to become the US weren't established until many years later and initially tended to get their hard labourers as indentured servants from Europe.
And if you're determined to act the clown why stop going back at the year 1444 for the start of the 'Atlantic slave trade'?
After all the Romans had boats, sailed them on the Atlantic ocean, controlled North Africa for centuries and were rather reliant on slavery and so they would have been transporting African slaves over the Atlantic over a thousand years before 1444!
So yes there have been black slaves for millennia (almost exclusively enslaved and sold by other blacks) but we are talking about a particular group of them in a particular context... being taken to a particular continent as slaves.
Pehaps in your clownery you might also want to reflect on the fact that far more European slaves were taken by African slavers to Africa, from Europe and the high seas, than the number of African slaves that were taken from Africa to what went on to become the USA.
The majority of the African slaves taken in the trans Atlantic slave trade ended up in the Portuguese colony that is now Brazil by the way.
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