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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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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Sadly, American history for homosexual culture and politics, while even briefer than Europe's, is no better. ... " (Timmons 145) While the society was short lived, it was influential in some of the first homosexuality based legal cases in America. ... This was the first time an American court was forced to make a distinction between homosexual behavior and illegal behavior. ... In 1973, pressure groups were able to force the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from its mental illness list. ... Ward's special interest group took measures to protect the civi...

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Our research set out to improve our understanding of the immigration from 1960s up to 1980s and by exploring the rhythms and realities of everyday life both of immigrants and natives people. ... In the other term "IMMIGRATION " derived from Latin: migratio is an act of people entering and settling in the country or region to which they are not native. ...

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Said, a Palestinian-American, knows full well of these repercussions and made many ground-breaking claims about just how powerful Western influence has been on these areas in his book. ... Continuing the cycle of Western-constructed realities of The Orient, Wharton really looked negatively upon Morocco and was punitively critical of the barren landscapes, the native infrastructure, people, and ˜their lack of motivation'. ...

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