Through out the centuries slavery has been a huge part of our history dating all the way back to the Spanish Empire in the sixteenth century. ... The rise of slavery dates back to the middle of the sixteenth century whenever the Spanish Empire was establishing in America. African slaves were not necessary, because the Spanish Americans forced tens of thousands of Indians to work for them. The Creek Indians welcomed the new settlers and began to sell them slaves that were generally war captives. The Creek tribe would even launch wars on neighboring tribes for the sole purpose to capture and sel...

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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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As another example, Jesuits were big production empires with the help of slavery, they were the largest land holders in America, and the Spanish were the largest owner of slaves. ... "7 This war contributes to the market of slavery trade, creates a culture difference in African war through violence, and influencing slavery. ... African slaves were turned into commodities, from the certain jobs they are needed for and the European/Spanish desire in quality of slave units. ... Leading to America's high demand for slavery. ... Sources in Africa gathered slaves for the market, using war,...

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Amistad The movie Amistad centers on a group of Africans who rebelled against the crew of the Spanish slave ship, La Amistad, in hopes of returning to their homeland. ... Throughout the film, both the Americans and the Africans are frustrated as they cannot understand each other. ... Because they were not born into slavery in Cuba, as the Spanish claim, they are no one's property. ... Letting the slaves go free would set a precedent that could very well lead to civil war. ... Only because of the color of their skin did the Europeans and early Americans think it was right to treat Afri...

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The more slaves they captured meant the more horses and guns they possess and the more military dominance resulted in more successful wars guaranteed large supplies of slaves. ... They could direct commerce in ways that helped them also compel Africans to wage wars that might otherwise not have been waged. ... The belief was strong among the first missionaries [who] wanted to protect the new believers at any cost from contact with the, in their eyes, godless Spanish colonists." ... After the discovery of Americas, The emperor of Spain, King Charles V declared Indians as subjects of Spain due...

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Washington's real quality was the American Revolution. ... He battled amid the French and Indian War, and his boldness made him a living legend. ... In 1795, Pinckney's Treaty helped relations with Spain by making a breaking point between the United States and Spanish held Florida. ... He was again asked to be the American power if The US went to war with France over the XYZ undertaking. ... It took America around a hundred years to do likewise4. ...

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The early 19th century in America was a time when the country was divided on the issue of slavery. ... David Walker's sediments on white Americans in his writing Appeal were extreme. ... He challenged the notion that Christianity called for peace yet caused much war and degradation; He argued that Spanish conquest brought about death and degradation in the name of God. ... We may ask why would a relatively unknown African writer in America rise up in argument against the former president, according to Walker -to inspire, to bring out the existing intellectual talents of the Africans in Am...

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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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With the sudden rise of profitable slave trade, driven by the European need, enslaving enemies became less a consequence of war and more and more of a necessity and reason to start war with neighboring tribes. ... Between the year 1650 and 1900, it is estimated that over 10.24 million enslaved Africans arrived in the Americas. ... Though this was the most popular place, the other seven areas of the continent were used as well, mainly by Spain and Portugal, due to the closeness to the countries and the easy access. ... The trans-Atlantic slave trade made significant declines during the Napoleon...

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In 1817, Spain signed a treaty agreeing to immediately end the slave trade north of the equator and south of the equator in 1820.   ... That was the time when bloody civil war was about to complete its 3 continuous year. ... By the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union and freedom. From the first days of the Civil War, slaves had acted to secure their own liberty. The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed their insistence that the war for the Union must become a war for freedom. ...

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Although African American slaves were now introduced to Native American communities, they still used their own prisoners of war as slaves as well. ... Her husband was killed during a war with the Muskogees and she fell in, took his place, and finished out the war with his weapon. ... Spanish explorers brought with them an African slave and came upon a Native American tribe in their travels. ... Some of the tribes also began buying African American slaves during the Revolutionary War. The Native American slave trade was only in existence until about 1730, after the trade led to a series of d...

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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. ... African capacity to resist Europeans ensured that sugar plantations were established in the Americas rather than in Africa. ... The epidemiological impact of the Old World destroyed not only Native American societies, but also a potential labor supply. ... Without this diss...

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But the fact is that because of slave trade being very popular in America, African culture impacted the American music greatly then, and now! With out African influences, American music would all be European and Spanish based with a small touch of Hawaiian and other near-by islands. ... With the Civil War came the freedom of slaves in America. ... "It was created in the days of slavery in America, when a black person was still an African in America, not an African-American. ... (African American music). ...

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These animals were signs of a great spirit who ruled the universe, an unseen god who guided them from planting crops, to starting wars, or even moving from one hunting ground to another. ... The area of itself is totally populated by black spanish decendants.footnote) The fact that the priest were present at the coast to aid te slaves with their long voyage through the middle passage, shows that the religion was carried over into the new world. ... Thornton express knowledge of the afro - american culture using the Santeria of Cuba, Cuba is a spanish caribbean island. ...

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Africans were transported to America to be sold throughout the continent as slave labourers. ... Their investment in human labour continued and grew and in 1488, the profit margins generated were so large that they almost solely funded the Christian nation's war against Islam in North Africa. ... 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. ... The French Revolution lead to a huge social upheaval and the French Revolutionary wars between the new Fren...

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All of these slaves were a result of prisoners of war ( he slave was battle captive), payments of debts, and punishments for crimes. ... Free blacks, who had left their struggling conditions in some of Spain's poorer towns, explored North America alongside white conquistadors (Gomez 2005, 63). ... The opportunity to find slaves in the Americas was nixed when many of the Native Americans died from the foreign European pioneers' diseases. ... Slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas in a complicated process. The triangular trade route, called the transatlantic slave trade, c...

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