SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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They went straight to work
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They got their vaccines
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They were auctioned off to the lowest bidder
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They were auctioned off to the highest bidder
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Detailed explanation-1: -Auction-An auctioneer sold enslaved people individually or in lots (as a group), with people being sold to the highest bidder. Scramble-Here the enslaved people were kept together in an enclosure. Buyers paid the captain a fixed sum beforehand.
Detailed explanation-2: -A scramble was a particular form of slave auction that took place during the Atlantic slave trade in the European colonies of the West Indies and the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -Once they arrived in the Caribbean islands, the Africans were prepared for sale. They were washed and their skin was oiled. Finally they were sold to local buyers. Often parents were separated from children, and husbands from wives.
Detailed explanation-4: -On August 20, 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrive in the British colony of Virginia and are then bought by English colonists. The arrival of the enslaved Africans in the New World marks a beginning of two and a half centuries of slavery in North America.