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Scope of the Slave Trade
The total slave trade to islands in the Caribbean, North & South America is estimated to have involved 12 million Africans. About 600,000 African slaves were imported into the U.S., or 5% of the 12 million slaves brought across from Africa. Life expectancy was much higher in the U.S. (because of better conditions) so the numbers grew rapidly by excesses of births over deaths, reaching 4 million by the 1860 Census. -
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Atlantic Slave Trade
The African slaves were sold to European contacts, they were transported by boat to the Atlantic, and thanks to the long trip to each destination, they were treated brutally. -
Disease and Indigenous Population Loss
The Europeans over time obtained several diseases after 1492 introduced new germs to the indigenous peoples of the Americas. By making epidemics plague the Americas after contact with Europe, killing between 10 and 100 million people, up to 95% of the indigenous population of the Americas: smallpox (1518, 1521, 1525, 1558, 1589), Typhus 1546), influenza (1558), diphtheria (1614) and measles (1618). -
Indentured Servants (cont.)
The workers gave everything to start afresh in America, from clothing to domestic skills to serve for 6 or 7 years. -
Migration to North America
Charles I, king of England persecuted many religious people thus causing the abandonment of England plus 10,000 people still being born in England, founding new colonies in 1629 and 1642. -
Religious Immigration
La religión católica fue la primera religión más importante al rededor del mundo, por lo que los portugués, españoles y franceses ahora pertenecen a esa religión. -
Forced Immigration & Enslavement
Slavery existed in the Americas prior to the arrival of Europeans, as different American Indian groups often captured and held other tribes' members as slaves.Some of these captives were even forced to undergo human sacrifice in certain Amerindian civilizations, such as the Aztecs. As the native populations declined from European diseases, forced exploitation, atrocities, they were often replaced by Africans imported through a large commercial slave trade. -
The Slavery Question
The Catholic Church realized that the slaves also like them were people who decided to fight for the rights of the workers so that they were treated correctly but nevertheless with the change of position of the church, in the end everything was not solved in 1537. -
The Search for Riches
Los primero ingleses llegaron y se establecieron en América en busca de nuevas riquezas, en especial un El Oro de la nueva tierra los ingleses exageraron el potencial económico de la nueva tierra encontrada en 1907. -
Indentured Servants
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs on 1587 Until the 1680s, the use of emigrants As servants hired for the colonies overseas, by the eighteenth century the emigrants were already more than half of the entire English population in the region Of Chesapeake, on the city of Virginia. -
Virginia Colonies
The pursuit of gold would not be the most suitable branch for the sustenance of food and shelter for a person who works for the English or rather for each slave. Making tobacco become the primary trade.
