slavery

As we look back in history, we can see many of the events that have brought a curse upon African Americans. One of which was the trading of slaves. Slaves in the 1800’s were taken from Africa, or many times, sold to the slave traders by rival tribes, and brought to America. Once they arrived in America, if they arrived in America, which brings out the point of the horrible conditions in which they were shipped to America, they were put up on display at the slave auctions. At this time, slave owners, or those wishing to purchase them, would make bid’s on them, as if they were just property. Slaves were not only purchased for money, but were also bartered for rum. The slave traders would sail from the Caribbean, where they got the rum, to the coast of West Africa, and they would then give the natives there bottles of rum, in return for the slaves. How many slaved were braught like this is hard to tell but according to
“The Atlantic slave trade operated from the 1500's to the...