For example, the colonial powers built new communications and transportation systems, established universities, and introduced modern medical practices. ... Many colonial administrations were insensitive to local customs and destroyed old ways of life. ... The introduction of sugar cultivation for the eastern Mediterranean to Madeira and the Canary Islands hastened the adaptation of Iberian institutions and social forms to the special requirements of a colonial economic environment. Because these islands lacked an adequate labor force, sugar cultivation was linked to the African slave trade ...

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The transatlantic slave trade occurred between the 16th and early 20th Century, it was a truly horrific period of human history where millions of men, women and children were uprooted throughout West Africa and dispersed across the colonised Americas connecting the economies of three continents. ... Africans were transported to America to be sold throughout the continent as slave labourers. ... 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. ... As the deman...

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Throughout the early 16th century, through to the mid 18th century, slavery and forced labour was widespread in Europe and the New World, particularly in America. Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619 by the Dutch to aid in the production of valuable resources such as tobacco, sugar and cotton (Slavery in America, 2015). ... The landing at Chesapeake Bay, Virginia was made by Captain John Smith along with 104 other sailors (Colonial Settlement). ... There were numerous reasons why slavery was introduced...

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The slaves were sailed to North America, South America, and the Caribbean and exchanged for sugar, tobacco, and other products that were shipped to Europe. ... Despite agreements and legislation, some slave trading still continued-.  2 Starting form the Black Codes of 1865 to the 50th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the American history still calls for to brood over each and every details of that struggle which took many years to see the sun of total freedom and liberty. Citizenship of the Freed Slave is not only an event to waffle about, in actual fact its start of a new ch...

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