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    strengthen their own economy. Africa’s rich supply of resources such as a large population had extremely detrimental to its economy. Slavery Sentence. The welfare of Africa’s people weakened rapidly from the poor management of the spread of diseases such as HIV/AIDS and Malaria. Africa is the least developed part of the world, given the impact of European imperialism, slavery, and an inability to deal with major diseases. As the ships of European countries sailed into the coasts of Sub-Saharan Africa the

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    The Forever Enslaved Africans Many say that the American Civil War was fought to free the black slaves. The Union won and declared all slaves free. Although they were named free slaves, African Slaves have never been fully set free, according to the standards of the multi-Cultural American white people. That is the purpose of this paper: ‘Free’ Black Slaves never got the freedom the Union fought for. Who were Black Slaves? The black slaves get their name simply because they have more melatonin in

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    on skin color existed. Racism as we know it today, is the product of the Slave Trade, instead of how it´s commonly thought to be: Slave Trade a product of racism. Slavery itself has existed through history, but evidence claims that it did not had racists undertones. The historian, C.L.R. James, states how in ancient Greece slavery was practiced by using other standards: barbarians or civilized. Barbarians were anyone that didn´t speak Greek, and as stated on Aristotle’s book ´Politics´ they were

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    Slavery in America evolved from indentured servitude to a slavery system, consisted of kidnapped Africans, because of Bacon’s Rebellion. The Bacon’s Rebellion was started by Nathaniel Bacon in 1676 when white settlers desired to move west near the Appalachian Mountains, which was claimed by the Native Americans. With the desire to claim the land, they had a buildup of anger and altercations with the Native Americans who controlled the land by inhabiting it from coast to Appalachian Mountains. The

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    of the English colonies flourished while indentured servitude began to diminish. This lead to the development of slavery and the growth of plantations. There were many events that caused slavery to expand. Bacon’s Rebellion and Maryland’s law establishing slavery as inheritable through generations were two of many events that took part in the development of the institution of slavery. During the establishment of the Virginia colonies, the ownership of indentured servants became popular. In Document

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    Virginia was a state of slavery where white supremacist did not think people of color as their own. Virginia had always been a very conservative state even after the abolishment of slavery. In fact, there was a case of Loving in 1967 in Virginia where white man and black woman got married without the knowledge that it was inappropriate and a disgrace to white people. Long before they got married, they got arrested in the middle of the night and spent the night in jail and forbid both of them from

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    in initiating slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade? The Atlantic Slave Trade was the largest migration over the ocean, which promoted the transportation of goods and people among different continents. During this terrifying experience about twelve million Africans were brought to the New World against their will to perform backbreaking labor under dreadful conditions. After being caught, Africans were sold to European traders in slave markets on the west coast of Africa. These African traders sold

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    thirteen colonies in North America were introduced to slavery and underwent the American Revolutionary War. Colonization of the New World by Europeans during the seventeenth century resulted in a great expansion of slavery, which later became the most common form of labor in the colonies. According to Peter Kolchin, modern Western slavery was a product of European expansion and was predominantly a system of labor. Even with the introduction of slavery to the New World, life still wasn’t as smooth as we

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    Slavery has always been an unfair and cruel injustice to people for a very long time. Slavery is a big thing today just as it has been for century upon century. There are many forms of slavery that aren’t as apparent as the more obvious forced labor slavery. Most people, which is believed to be an opinion, are in denial about the fact that slavery is still a very big deal and an actual common ongoing topic. Slavery, even though most of the time it goes unnoticed, is still happening everyday all around

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    From the 16th to 19th century, the Atlantic Slave trade was the transportation of 10-12 million enslaved people of African descent. This happened between Europe, Africa, and America, and these slaves were traded in for goods such as coffee, sugar and gold. The triangle trade was a trade between 3 regions in the Atlantic, those regions consists of Europe, West Africa, and America. Slavery was very different in Brazil than it was from the U.S. since Brazil had very harsh conditions causing higher death

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