Henry wanted to find a water route to India. The passage to India over land was long, slow, and dangerous. ... In 1499, Vasco da Gama was the first sailor to travel from Portugal to India. Just a few years earlier, Queen Isabella of Spain hired a sailor from Genoa to reach India by sailing west. It wasn't until years later that anyone understood that the "Indians" he encountered weren't from India after all. ...
This could be black women straightening their hair, or getting a weave to fit into a certain, white culture, or people in India and China, using a bleach based lotion to make their skin less pigmented. ... In this passage the narrator is describing black women who come from other neighborhoods, white neighborhoods. ...
The second main visitor was Henry Hudson, who was hired by the Dutch East India Company to find the westward passage to Asia. ... In 1624, the Dutch West India Company sent 110 people to the island that Hudson discovered. ... The Dutch West India Company provided many incentives for people to come to their colony, but the colony still grew too slowly. ...
