America The Grammar Quick Hits #1 -- Apostrophes with numbers

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To make a number plural, do not use an apostrophe.

E.g.
Between the early *1500s and 1800s*, of the 10.7 million Africans taken as
slaves, 305,000 of them were brought to the United States.

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