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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Is this question from the missionary story?
Answer:
A) Blacks still received unequal pay compared to whites
Explanation:
Which sentence best describes the effect of Napoleon’s economic reforms on the people of France?
Napoleon’s property laws made it easy for the rich to take over farmers’ land.
Napoleon’s tax system decreased the inequality between the rich and the poor.
Napoleon’s tax on tobacco caused a revolt in the southern districts of France.
Napoleon’s reformed tax system exempted the majority of landowners from taxes.
Answer:
Napoleon’s tax system decreased the inequality between the rich and the poor.
Explanation:
Napoleon Bonaporte's most significant reform was the Napoleonic Code in which privileges based on birth was forbidden, people had the freedom to choose their religion and eliminated nepotism by stating that only qualified people should be given government jobs.
He also brought a tax system that decreased the inequality between the rich and the poor.
