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Slavery
By: Sara Malan
During the course of the slave trade, millions of Africans were moved to the New World. Some Africans resisted enslavement by running from slave forts on the West African coast. Others attacked on board slave trading vessels, or threw themselves into the ocean. In the New World there were those who ran away from their owners, ran away among the Indians, revolted, feigned sickness, or participated in work slow downs. Some went out to find freedom and succeeded in gaining liberty through various legal means such as "good service" to their masters, self-purchase, or military service. Still others seemingly acquiesced and learned to survive in servitude.
The European, American, and African slave traders were fine with trading in humans, and the politicians and businessmen who supported them, did not intend help change any thing. The sl...

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