Atlantic Trade Slave (POV)
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- Do you have any GOLD that I can have?
- Europeans came to my country to ask for Gold & Raw materials such as coal, grain, & minerals
- During the time of exploration in Africa, millions of Native American workers began to die of sickness. Sickness such as famine, The flu, respiratory infections, malaria, & such other diseases that nobody knew how to cure around that time because of the reasoning of having no doctors around in my country.
- The Europeans then decided that Africans would be a perfect substitute for the Native Americans in colonizing the Americas. Whereas one morning I was captured by a couple of new Europeans with no hesitation including other Africans from different parts of Africa.
- I didn't realize that I was apart of a trade nor realize where I was going to be sold being enslaved. Knowing that being away from my friends & family back in Africa is so sad! A bunch of Europeans brought & sold my fellow Africans to work in the Americas.
- Between the years 1500 and 1600, approximately 300,000 Africans were transported to the Americas to work for their owners & sadly I was apart of that profit where I knew that Euro-Americans were happy for making business.
- On that morning Africans such as I were sent to plantations and farms for cheap labor to contribute to colonizing the Americas. Working hard to adapt my new way of living under somebody else which is more difficult then working for myself. Feeling scared & nervous that I'm used as merely a tool for work & treated as an object towards my slave masters.
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