This is known as the Anaconda Plan.
This military strategy, developed by Union General Winfield Scott, was meant to starve the Confederacy out of their resources. Essentially, Scott felt that if the Confederacy could not trade for goods with other countries they would not be able to survive. This is due to the Confederacy's reliance on cotton as their main cash crop.
This strategy helps to explain why the US wanted to blockade trade with other countries as well as why the Union wanted to control the Mississippi River, as they knew control of this waterway could negatively impact the Confederacy's ability to transport/obtain resources.
Probably the main reason Africans, rather than Native Americans, became slaves in America was that D. Africans and Europeans shared immunities to Old World diseases.
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According to Azurara, the crowd came to Lagos to witness the division of the captives because they had never seen such a sight before. Some wept at the pitiful sight while others tried to assist in the division, all of which added to the general confusion.
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The question was drawn from the chapter 25 of The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea where Gomes Eannes de Azurara describes the division of the captives which occurred in the city of Lagos on August 8, 1450.
He says that a large crowd gathered from the city and the surrounding countryside to watch this division. The crowd came because such a spectacle was entirely new to them and they had never seen such an assortment of people
In conclusion, the crowd came to Lagos to witness the division of the captives because they had never seen such a sight before. Some wept at the pitiful sight while others tried to assist in the division, all of which added to the general confusion.
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Constantine 1's conversion ended the policy of persecuting Christians in the Roman empire.
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