The Slave Trade in Context
We all know that African people were transport from Africa and into the Americas as slaves. I was surprise to find out that African people wasn't the first people to be slaves. The Slavic people were the first until the Turks took over and cut off the Slavic people from slavery. However, the word slave partially came from "Slav". The Portuguese minors went to Africa afterwards primarily looking for gold and found that a new source of slaves were in West Africa. These Africans were skilled farmers, had immunity from tropical and European diseases (since most of the Native Americans were dying due to lack of immunity), and they weren't Christians. I was really surprised to find that most of the African slaves wounded up in Brazil or the Caribbean and only five or six percent went to North America. This chapter has been very interesting, to me, in learning where everything started and how people viewed it.
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