Facts of Human Civilizations.

Hatred for Ancient Greek culture «As for myself I consider the Greek culture nonsense, uttered by an evil demon and the saddest of affairs» GEORGIUS MONACHUS Chronogr. ON THARRA Note the philobarbarian attitude of Saint John Chrysostom: «The more a nation looks barbaric and is estranged from Greek culture, the more our teachings shine - this (faithful) barbarian has conquered the entire world and while all Greek culture is extinguished and destroyed, his (the barbarian's) shines brighter every day». JOHN CHRYSOSTOM forbids use of Greek names «None must call his children the (Greek) ancestors' names, be that of their father, their mother, their grandfather or their great grandfather, but instead you must use those of the righteous (of the Old Testament) John Chrysostom De inani gloria et de educandis liberis (690) 641.65 -- Extracted from  Were The Fathers Of The Christian Church Philhellenes?  at  Michael Kalopoulos' site Greatlie.com The persecuted Hellenes

Estimates vary, but somewhere between 20 million and 60 million people were captured, enslaved and brought to the Americas. Millions more died in the slave raids, in the dungeons and in the Middle Passage. From:  Through slavery's darkest passages - Ghana's slave dungeons  -  Essence , Special Travel Section, October 1992.  Other estimates are lower (BBC gives 15 million), though they take into account only those Africans who made it into the New World alive: According to the best current estimates a total of 10 to 11 million  living  slaves  crossed  the Atlantic Ocean  from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. (Since  others died in wars and in transit , Africa's total population loss was much greater.) -- American Slavery, 1619-1877, by Peter Kolchin The above only deals with those that were displaced to the Americas, not with those who never made it. Not all were transported across the Atlantic, as others were taken to Europe (Spain and England, for in