Naturally, after taking in the sight of a beautiful uncharted island and meeting the local natives, his next main focus was to convert, command, and conquer. He took notice of the fact that he and his men were looked upon as heavenly figures and that the natives had virtually no weapons nor fighting techniques, so he knew that they could be "easily commanded or made to work ". ... Columbus initially wanted to convert the Indians through "love ", but seeing the endless gold and riches that could be acquired, he made the acquisition of gold his primary goal for his time spent with the natives. ....

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In chapter one we are taken back to 1492 New England to see the day to day lives of two very prominent and influential Native American tribes. ... The two groups that this essay mainly focused on are the Algonquians and Iroquoians. Both groups in this essay practiced swidden, or slash-and-burn, horticulture. ... In return the servant would give his master four to five years of hard work, while this was happening the servant was given food and shelter. ... In Ira Berlin's essay "Human Cargo: From Africa to America " we are introduced to the plantation. ...

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In this essay I will examine whether the work of the white, middle-class campaigners really was the main reason the slave trade was abolished or if other members of the social spectrum were equally or more responsible. ... He made a speech in the House of Commons in 1792 in which he said, "I know of no evil that has ever existed worse than the tearing of 70,000 or 80,000 people each year from their native land. " He frequently and strongly voiced his opinions to the rest of the MPs to try to persuade them to join the cause for although he was Prime Minister he still had to gain enough votes f...

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Yet the experience of African slaves and the Native American Indians starkly contrasts with that of the European immigrant groups, and describes a second, darker facet to American culture that still exists today. ...

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Introduction The Middle Passage is the crossing of the Ocean from Africa to America of African people, who passed from the state of liberty to the state of slavery, and took place between the XVI and XIX centuries. They were captured from the tribes situated on Africa's West Coast: Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Congo, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Senegal, etc. and they were shipped in the southern area of North America (Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida). The Diaspora gives birth to a new human being: the African American, who links together the African and the Ame...

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The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. Cumulatively, as late a...

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