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The Slave Trade and Its Effects on Early America
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 ....
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.... they were shipped off, they had to pass through a
slave-trading station. The slave trade, which was first controlled by Portugal,
was now controlled by other European nations. In the late 1600's, Spain,
Holland, England, France and Denmark were all sending ships to West Africa. The
slave trade was becoming big business (Goodman, 7).
Selection of the slaves by the traders was a painstaking process. Ships
from England would pull up on the coast of Africa, and the captains would set
off towards the coast on small ships. “If the slave trader was a black chief,
there always ha ....
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