They traded cloth, iron, and copper in raw and worked form, and cowry shells used by the local populations as currency.
In exchange for their wares, Europeans returned textiles, carvings, spices, ivory, gum, and African slaves.
<span>Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896) was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court decided in 1896. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".</span>
