Roger, it’s rarely a good idea to compare broad historical social movements
that produce great evil. The discrete histories are so much different. I
don’t really think anything is “decided” arguing “What was more evil —
Slavery or the Holocaust?”
However, if we’re looking at body counts, it should be noted that many who
look at the Americas don’t just examine the post -Civil War period and Jim
Crow. They also point to the entire Middle Passage period where millions of
Africans lost their lives during their transport here. As for the
post-Reconstruction period, I’m not sure if the fact that blacks were “only”
lynched at a rate of 2 1/2 times as much as whites is exactly reassuring.