History of the African Slave Trade

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Note: Some of the links are being messed with. Go to history.com and do a search on slavery in america if the link gives you a 404 error.

History of the African Slave Trade https://www.history.com/news/america...jamestown-1619

US Post Card Black Kids As Alligator Bait https://shorturl.at/UDiGZ

American Slavery https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery

Largest African slave colony Brazil (Native Indians were slaves too) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Brazil
Slavery in Spanish Florida https://www.nps.gov/casa/learn/histo...-1565-1821.htm

Whether it was Portugal, England(the worst of them),France, Spain, and some leaders of Africa. They all had a hand in human trafficking for profits.

African Slave trade started in 1441 in North Africa (Mauritania) with the Portuguese. Then in 1490 in Hispaniola (the Dominican Republic and Haiti) by the Spanish. Then In 1526, on the North America Continent (South Carolina today) by the Spanish. The slaves rebelled and prevented the Spanish slave colony there. Then in 1540 in Brazil by the Portuguese. In 1565 in St. Augustine (state of Florida) by the Spanish. In 1619, slavery did unofficially start in America but was first legalized by the government in 1644 in the state of Massachusetts. African leaders also had a big involvement in the African slave trade. Many Anglo-Christians defended slavery using the Bible. For example, white Christian apologists for slavery argued that the curse of Ham in Genesis Chapter 9 and verses 20 to 25 provided a biblical rationale for the enslavement of Blacks.