John Quincy Adams. It would have helped a little more if i had choices.
Splitting of families--the passage accounts the selling of children and tearing apart of families at the slave block.
As slaves were not seen as capable of having family relationships, the selling of children was quite common. Children were often ripped from the arms of mothers as soon as the child could be used for labor. The reproduction of children made women valuable and allowed for slave masters and traders to make money off of the females.
Of commodities that contributed to the expansion of the global economy in the 19th century include: Opium produced in the Middle East or South Asia and exported to China. Cotton grown in South Asia, Egypt, the Caribbean, or North America and exported to Great Britain and other European countries.
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A range of cultural, religious, and racial ideologies were used to justify imperialism, including Social Darwinism, nationalism, the concept of the civilizing mission, and the desire to religiously convert indigenous populations.
