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Slavery played an important role in the development of the American colonies. It
was introduced to the colonies in 1619, and spanned until the Emancipation
Proclamation in 1863. The trading of slaves in America in the seventeenth century was a
large industry. Slaves were captured from their homes in Africa, shipped to America
under extremely poor conditions, and then sold to the highest bidder, put to work, and
forced to live with the new conditions of America.
There was no mercy for the slaves and their families as they were captured from
their homes and forced onto slave ships. Most of the Africans who were captured lived
in small villages in West Africa. A typical village takeover would occur early in the
morning. An enemy tribe would raid the village, and then burn the huts to the ground.
Slave transport in Africa, depicted in a 19th-cent...
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United StatesMost of the people who were taken by surprise were killed or captured; few escaped.
The captured Africans were now on their way to the slave ships. "Bound together two by
two with heavy wooden yokes fastened around their necks, a long line of black men and
women plodded down a well-worn path through the dense forest. Most of the men were
burdened with huge elephants' tusks. Others, and many of the women too, bore baskets
or bales of food. Little boys and girls trudged along beside their parents, eyes wide in
fear and wonder" (McCague, 14).
After they were marched often hundreds of miles, it was time for them to be
shipped off to sea, so that they could be sold as cheap labor to help harvest the new
world. But before they were shipped off, they had to pass through a...