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African kingdoms prospered from the slave trade, but meeting the European's massive demand created intense competition.
To defend themselves from slave raids, neighboring kingdoms needed European firearms, which they also bought with slaves.
The slave trade had become an arms race, altering societies and economies across the continent.
After being marched to slave forts on the coast, shaved to prevent lice, and branded, they were loaded onto ships bound for the Americas.
While the lack of sanitation caused many to die of disease, and others were thrown overboard for being sick, or as discipline, the captain's ensured their profits by cutting off slave's ears as proof of purchase.
But what is not often discussed is the effect that the Atlantic slave trade had on Africa's future.
When the slave trade was finally outlawed in the Americas and Europe, the African kingdoms whose economies it had come to dominate collapsed, leaving them open to conquest and colonization.
The Atlantic slave trade also contributed to the development of racist ideology.
In all of these ways, the Atlantic slave trade was an injustice on a massive scale whose impact has continued long after its abolition.
That involved using plantations and imported slave labor in the Caribbean and on islands off the coast of Africa.
Many of the plantations throughout West Africa, which supply Western companies, use slave and child labor, with an estimation of more than 2 million children affected.
But a closer look at this lotus reveals each petal to be the cross-section of a slave ship.
Slapping thighs, shuffling feet and patting hands: this was how they got around the slave owners' ban on drumming, improvising complex rhythms just like ancestors did with drums in Haiti or in the Yoruba communities of West Africa.
The public school system of this country was built, bought and paid for using commerce generated from the slave trade and slave labor.
Financial literacy really did rule the world, and I was a child slave to it following the bad guy.
And amazingly, this man spent decades as a younger man as the captain of a slave ship, and then as an investor in slavery, growing rich from this.
Where is the fire that burned holes through slave ships to make us breathe?
That's not what it was for, it wasn't for the slaves, it was for Thomas Jefferson and his dinner guests, so they didn't have to see the slave bringing the food up.
Indeed, during the Atlantic slave trade, this rice became a major crop in the Americas ... particularly in the Carolinas where it was nicknamed, "Carolina gold."
This very same word can also mean "slave" and dancers were in fact known as knhom preah robam, or "slaves of the sacred dance."
Khnhom not as in slave, but as in conscious service.
For now, however, he was only a slave – one of millions taken from the territories conquered by Rome to work the mines, till the fields, or fight for the crowd’s entertainment.
Thousands of years later, the name of the slave who made the world’s mightiest empire tremble has become synonymous with freedom– and the courage to fight for it.
But he’s since become their slave, and rants with furious regret: “And then I loved thee,/ And showed thee all the qualities o’ th’ isle/ The fresh springs, brine pits, barren place and fertile./
Most black people in this country are walking around with a slave owner's last name.
So we ended up holding a slave auction in Union Square to tie into the genesis of the transatlantic slave trade.
I was also arrested in Giants Stadium for hosting a slave reenactment at their football team's home opener.
His obsession with bodies, history, and representation can be found in works evoking the Atlantic slave trade and African history, as well as pieces focusing on contemporary race relations.
We then read books, we read so many books, we read the memoir of Frederick Douglass, an American slave who taught himself to read and write and who escaped to freedom because of his literacy.
And I say: If you don't know you're a slave, if you don't know you're isolated or oppressed, how do you fight to be free?
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