Slavery
Slavery
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness"
(Thomas Jefferson).
Slavery
Slavery in America stems well back to when the new world was first
discovered and was led by the country to start the African Slave Trade-
Portugal. The African Slave Trade was first exploited for plantations
in that is now called the Caribbean, and eventually reached the southern
coasts of America (Slavery Two; Milton Meltzer). The African natives were
of all ages and sexes. Women usually worked in the homes, cooking and
cleaning, whereas men were sent out into the plantations to farm. Young
girls would usually help in the house also and young boys would help in
the farm by bailing hay and loading wagons with crops.
Since trying to capture the native Indians, the Arawaks and Caribs,
failed (Small-Pox had killed them), the Europeans said out to capture
African slaves.
They were shipped from Africa by the Europeans in what was called
The Triangular Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. This was an organized route
where Europeans would travel to Africa bringing manufactured goods,
capture Africans and take them to the Caribbean, and then take the crops
and goods and bring them back to Europe. The African people, in order to
communicate invented a language that was a mixture of all the African
languages combined, called Creole. This...
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