The estimated number of African slaves taken out of Africa is around 12 million people, but because around 1.5 million of them died during the journeys to the New World, around 10.5 million actually managed to set foot in the Americas.
The African slaves were taken from multiple regions of the Continent, but mostly they were from the places around the coast lines of Western and Central Africa. Contrary on the popular belief that the Europeans went to Africa and captured the native people, it was actually that the stronger local tribes were capturing people from the smaller weaker tribes and they were selling them to the Europeans to make a profit. The Europeans saw a great chance in this because they needed a lot of labor force for their plantations and used it to the maximum.
Answer: It meant a paradoxal situation because the proper foundation of the USA was an anti-imperialist and anti-colonial act. Foundation of the USA was an emancipation against British imperialism. But already in 1840s USA started practicing imperialist policy toward Mexico (Texas) and Central America. It was a paradox. Spanish American war was sort of a culmination of this kind of policy.
Explanation: One of the explanations is a Social Darwinism which was very fashionable at that time and its perspective was applied not only to societies and races but also to history. According to this perspective Latin nations were decadent and condemned to extinction. Such a view seemed to be confirmed by Franco-Prussian war (example). The same perspective followed Americans (Theodor Roosevelt).
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I believe you are correct because the black plague was only from 1346 to 1353 and nothing says anything about Boston or Great Britain. The person didn't seem wealthy either he said that he could probably get some good money which could refer to him hoping he could get enough money to live on his own
1 is the answer my class is doing the enlightenment era this month