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A Slave Market in Africa

Through the voice of a Dutch observer, the African slave market is described in high esteem. The Dutchman depicts the slave ships as providing a higher quality of life from what the slaves knew prior to their imprisonment. However, this man’s portrayal of the slave trade is far from the truth.
Although the slave market in North America is most commonly remembered of all slave markets, traffic in slaves had existed for centuries before the arrival of the first European fleets along the African shore. The slaves used throughout Africa were mainly prisoners captured in battles with neighboring rivals. Slavery also existed in European countries before making its presence in the New World. But, with the discovery of the New World in the 1490s came the subsequent planting of sugarcane in South America and the Caribbean Islands. The new plantations r...

Posted by: Anthony Pacella

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