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>>12564916
>>Life expectancy for slaves was often just years upon arrival
>http://abolition.e2bn.org/slavery_69.html
This article seems to be more about slavery in Caribbean and South America. I was talking exclusively about the slavery US where life expectancy of slaves was the same as in Western Europe. Yes, it was few years lower then free whites but that is also true today. Lower African life expectancy is probably due to biological reasons and not some kind of oppression.
https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c0606/c0606.pdf

>>Mass slave graves all over the America's and the Caribbean
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/mass-grave-of-former-slaves-unearthed-in-texas
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/07/18/bodies-found-construction-site-slavery-trnd/
Only these two articles are about slavery in US and they both write about the same mass grave of 95 slaves found in Texas.

>>Deaths in the several millions over a sustained period of time
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6445941.stm
This article only states that "More than a million people are thought to have died while in transit". Given that only 472 thousands slaves were shipped to the US overall, this (unsourced) figure is likely inflated by other slave-owning countries. Besides, I never said that transit across Atlantic was safe, only that slave life in the US was objectively better than lives of most people in the world at the time