USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Spaniards enslaving the Native Americans. Like many European explorers, Christopher Columbus encountered Indigenous people throughout his voyages.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Portuguese, in the 16th century, were the first to buy slaves from West African slavers and transport them across the Atlantic. In 1526, they completed the first transatlantic slave voyage to Brazil, and other Europeans soon followed.

Detailed explanation-3: -Native American slavery “is a piece of the history of slavery that has been glossed over, ” Fisher said. “Between 1492 and 1880, between 2 and 5.5 million Native Americans were enslaved in the Americas in addition to 12.5 million African slaves.”

Detailed explanation-4: -Slavery in India escalated during the Muslim domination of northern India after the 11th century, when Muslim rulers re-introduced slavery to the Indian subcontinent.

Detailed explanation-5: -Beginning in the 16th century and for centuries after, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Dutch traders systematically purchased large numbers of African people, many of whom had been captured by the traders’ African allies in wars or in raids, and transported them to the American colonies for permanent enslavement.