At the beginning of the 1830s newspapers such as The Liberator and societies like the American Anti-Slavery emerged, all with the purpose of immediate emancipation of all slaves (Jones et al. ... In 1839 the Amistad case forever changed the history of slavery in the United States serving as a key factor in the escalation to the Civil War. ... Spain pressed the United States to return the slaves to its owners, Jose Ruiz and Pedro Montez, because the United States did not have any jurisdiction over Spanish subjects. ... President Martin Van Buren was in favor of handing over the Africans to Sp...

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The main goals in the expansion were to Christianize the Indians, to gain trading power, to expand their empire, and of course, to gain the great mineral wealth of the Americans. ... The Spanish thought the Aztecs were not as developed as themselves because they did not have the same level of culture in the eyes of the Spanish. The Aztecs did not have weapons, ships, or other technological advances that the Spanish had. The Spanish were able to conquer the Aztecs because the Aztecs did not have the modern advances. ... The chief employment in all these countries was agriculture, and both mal...

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Spanish conquistadors set out hoping to trade goods for riches, but quickly enslaved the Native American people to make them search for gold and silver. Millions of Native Americans died either from disease, malnutrition, or Spanish torment. ... Since slavery was viewed as unchristian and illegal in the early years of the Spanish colonies, special permission for slavery had to be granted (called the asiento). ... Mining silver Peru, Africans worked alongside with Native Americans. ... Ships sailed from Columbia to Panama where African captives were transported to South America. ...

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