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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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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