Slavery
Europeans and Asians were interested in the slave trade. The Europeans
were accostomed to blacks doing their work. The Europeans developed a
rationalization for their deeds based on christainity. The Europeans, Spaniards
and Portuguese, established orderly trade relations with Africans. They were
also erecting forts and trading post to help carry out their business. The
Europeans also believed in the new concept of freedom, brought on by the
Commerical Revolution. When the muslims invaded Africa they contributed
greatly to the beginning
of slavery, for example by seizing women for their harems
and military and menial services. Muslims did not ulitize slavery for the product
of goods.
Africans inhabited the New World before Columbus arrived. Africans also
were considered the pioneers of the transatlantic west, according to the theory
of Professor Leo Wiener. As early as 1501, Spain permitted Africans to go to
Spanish lands in the New World.Explorers like Cortes, carried blacks to Mexico
and grew the first wheat corp in the New World. Alvardo took 200 blacks with
him to Quito. Estevanico was an outstanding explorer who opened the New
Mexico and Arizona for the Spaniards.
Slave trading allowed the Spaniards to import African slaves to the
New World. In 1512 Bishop Bartolomeo De Las Casa encouraged immigration.
Charles II issued licenses to several Flemish Traders to take slaves to Spanish
Colonies. England was the country that dominated the entire world. The war of
the Spanish Succession gave England the right to take slaves to Spanish
Colonies for thirty years. Slave trading was also an important part in...
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