Firstly, one of the main causes of conveying slaves to the new world is the dispute between opposing and competing groups of native Africans. ... Africans themselves captured Africans as slaves while fighting each other in return to get military technology. ... To move onto another important argument, Native Americans were inappropriate by means of demographic and physical attributes to labor as slaves. ... (Rietbergen, 1998) As well as being weaker physically, Native Americans "were unwilling to do plantation work and for various reasons were difficult to coerce. ... In short, a mixture of...

• Word Count: 1449
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ... He was in constant fear of being sold to "human butchers, who cut and mangled the slaves in a shocking manner on the most trifling occasions, and altogether treat them in every respect like brutes." (105) Beyond these fears, slaves were forced to labor unmercifully for their master's and in return were underfed and ill-treated as ignorant me...

• Word Count: 1722
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ... Unfortunately for the Anglican ministers they did not have much success at this time and returned home bemoaning their failure to convert no more than a handful of slaves. ...

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"The bargain included the exchange of votes on the extension of the slave trade for twenty years in return for support the Deep South for majority vote in the Congress rather than a super majority of two-thirds," this allowed both sides to claim victory without the knowledge of it (Ellis 94). ... There was no Africans or Native Americans," because the image of America was thought of a white, nothing else (Ellis 101). ...

• Word Count: 1593
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The opportunity to find slaves in the Americas was nixed when many of the Native Americans died from the foreign European pioneers' diseases. ... After the slaves were traded for commodities such as textiles, gunpowder, and pearls, the ships then crossed the Atlantic, and returned to Europe with American agricultural exports such as tobacco, cotton and sugar (Slave Trade et. al. 2014, 2). ...

• Word Count: 1892
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George Washington's belief was to lead Virginia into an expedition to challenge French claims at the Allegheny River Valley. This was accomplished in 1753. In 1754, Washington led Virginian forces against French at Fort Duquesne in the upper Ohio River Valley. Washington also builds Fort Necessity a...

• Word Count: 1934
• Approx Pages: 8
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