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C.Held all power in France and claimed to represent God on Earth.
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Louis XIV of France is seen as the embodiment of absolute monarchical power in French and European history. He was called the Sun King for his exercise of total power. He coined a famous phrase: "L´état, c´est moi" (I am the state).
While you didn't provide any possible sources, we can expect that biased information would be found when you would look for information from people who are involved in the situation that is being discussed. Imagine a soldier from Germany discussing his viewpoint of World War II. He would most likely give you a biased account. At least, when compared to a postwar historical analysis of that same situation.
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The following is an excerpt from Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library (National Geographic Books,2003). Order it here.
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"—Patrick Henry, Speech in the Virginia Convention, March, 1775.
African peoples were captured and transported to the Americas to work. Most European colonial economies in the Americas from the 16th through the 19th century were dependent on enslaved African labor for their survival.
According to European colonial officials, the abundant land they had "discovered" in the Americas was useless without sufficient labor to exploit it. Slavery systems of labor exploitation were preferred, but neither European nor Native American sources proved adequate to the task.
The trans-Saharan slave trade had long supplied enslaved African labor to work on sugar plantations in the Mediterranean alongside white slaves from Russia and the Balkans. This same trade also sent as many as 10,000 slaves a year to serve owners in North Africa, the Middle East, and the Iberian Peninsula.
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!not saying slavery is okay! i just hope this helps you hehe, and good luck on your homework/ school work!
