These types of servants we made up European, and native people. ... Cotton became a staple in America, which primarily carried their financial state in New York. African slaves were being placed in plantations to do work which the Americans saw fit for their capabilities only, opposed to the domestic servants. ... There were many disadvantages in native and white slavery that they did not face with the Africans; native people refused work and tried to escape, as well as the supply of natives was limited and whites worked on contracts, time limits and had legal protection[Sim14]. ... These peop...

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Would you agree that African culture survived more strongly in the Caribbean colonies than in North America? ... North American slaves lived together in buildings near to their place of work. ... By setting aside their forced leaving of their native Africa the slaves emerged with new identities with local roots but all based on their strong cultural belief and need for kinship. ... Like America, slave religion in the Caribbean shared a great deal of the same features. ... Like America the Caribbean h...

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Africans were transported to America to be sold throughout the continent as slave labourers. ... Portugal had been present in Western Africa for several years but in 1445 the King, Henry the Navigator instructed his sailors on their way to the continent to win over the natives so they could purchase human beings to be used as free labour rather than to kidnap them as they had done previously4. ... That being the Portuguese settlers in the Americas or the "New World" were given loans with easy repayment and interest plans to buy more slaves and develop sugar plantations. Africans were...

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Olaudah Equiano, a native of the African province Eboe and author of The Interesting Narrative experienced the cruel and inhumane life of a slave. ... He faced slavery on several fronts, in his native Africa, the West Indies, Europe and America. ... It is no wonder so many of these African natives would prefer death to slavery. ... The inhumane treatment of the African natives was left unattended throughout the duration and a prejudice against them was all but expected, much of which remains today. ...

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Other slaves were converted once they were in America. ... In conclusion, slaves were reluctant to convert to Christianity but after seeing all the similarities between Christianity and their native African religion, the slaves started seeing it as a path for equality....

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Death, especially for the women was not only seemed as a liberation from the extreme conditions of slavery but, regarding t their African beliefs, as a means of escape permitting the dead to return to their native land. ... One significant woman who successful guided slaves to freedom during slavery was Harriet Tubman, formerly a slave in the American South, Harriet Tubman became known as the most famous guide of the Underground Railroad, a secret network that during the mid-1800s helped slaves escape to freedom in the northern United States and Canada. ...

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Joseph Ellis opens up "Founding Brothers" by explaining "No event in American history which was so improbable at the time has seemed to inevitable in retrospect as the American Revolution" (Ellis 3). He claimed the American Revolution was inevitable because of those who were urging for independence tried everything they could to gain independence. ... There was no Africans or Native Americans," because the image of America was thought of a white, nothing else (Ellis 101). ... Ellis also explains that Madison knew the "American Revolution promised freedom, and slav...

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With the decline of the Amerindian population, labor from Africa formed the basis of the exploitation of the gold and agricultural resources of the export sectors of the Americas, with sugar plantations absorbing well over two thirds of slaves carried across the Atlantic by the major European and Euro-American powers. ... The short answer to the first of these two questions is that European expansion to the Americas was to mainly tropical and semi-tropical areas. ... African capacity to resist Europeans ensured that sugar plantations were established in the Americas rather than in Africa. ......

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