This is taken from THE GLEANER, article AFRICA'S ROLE IN SLAVERY.
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<span>In the Arab world, which was the first to import large numbers of slaves from Africa, the slave traffic was cosmopolitan. Slaves of all types were sold in open bazaars. The Arabs played an important role as middlemen in the trans-atlantic slave trade, and research data suggest that between the 7th and the 19th centuries, they transported more than 14 million black slaves across the Sahara and the Red Sea, as many or more than were shipped to the Americas, depending on the estimates for the transatlantic slave trade.</span>
The inescapable fact that stuck in my craw was: My people had sold me ... . My own people had exterminated whole nations and torn families apart for a profit before the strangers got their chance at a cut. It was a sobering thought. It impressed upon me the universal nature of greed." And we might add, the universal nature of slavery.
African kings were willing to provide a steady flow of captives, who they said were criminals or prisoners of war doomed for execution. Many were not, but this did not prevent traders posing as philanthropists who were rescuing the Africans from death and offering them a better and more productive life.
When France and Britain outlawed slavery in their territories in the early 19th Century, African chiefs who had grown rich and powerful off the slave trade sent protest delegations to Paris and London. Britain abolished the slave trade and slavery itself against fierce opposition from West African and Arab traders.The slave trade<span>. </span>The African state that played a very active and profitable role<span> in the translantic slave was? The Kingdom on Dahomey.
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Answer: 1. Bad working conditions (crowded and unclean factories)
2. A lack of safety codes or legislation (no proper fire escapes crowded work space)
3. Long hours were normal (long hours of 12+ hours no days off)
4. Children were payed less ( business owners payed children less)
5. Their small stature enabled them to complete tasks in factories or mines that would be challenging for adults.
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Andrew Carnegie's veiws eventually helped make many millionaires . Compaired to the average coal miner mentality (9 to 5 way of going about life.)
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Andrew Carnegie did not want to die without teaching people all his incredible knowledge he had learned in his amazing life . Andrew eventually met a young reporter named Napoleon Hill and decided that Hill qualified to help Andrew teach the world his way of thinking . Hill learned and with what he had learned he wrote a little book he named Think And Grow Rich . That little book has helped more poeple become millionaires then any else in history . More millionaires attribute their success to that book then anything else in the world .
sugra matlab.................?
I think its the availability of good jobs in the North and West.
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