Out Of Many
This week in class we read two chapters in the Out of Many book. The first chapter was mainly related to the history of slavery beginning in Africa. It talked about how as resources were found in the land that slaves always seemed to follow. It provided a brief history of West Africa. I found it interesting that it claimed the reason Africans made the best slaves was because of the previous knowledge of farming in Africa. This makes a good introduction for the history of slave trading, which surprisingly lasted over 300 years. The demand for labor was so high in those 300 years that over 11 million slaves were “exported” from Africa. It was also disturbing to learn that they burned villages and captured men at night to sell them to the slave traders. Even more disturbing is the fact that these people who are kidnapping the Africans were black themselves. It makes you wonder how long it took for them to get captured and sold to slavery. It then describes some of the conditions of the ships, but it just reiterated what I had alread
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Some common words found in the essay are:
West Africa, Indians Florida, England Churches, North South, French English, , England Indians, spanish french, french english, spanish french english, Spanish French,
Approximate Word count = 697
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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