I would say it strengthened the American society for African Americans because it really focused on racial pride for African Americans and the increase of population of African Americans would help them get a message through for civil rights. This also drawn creativity in for new artistic development of African American arts.
Well history does show us some pretty cool heroes and some pretty bad villains, but some stories from history are not real for example Poseidon god of the see in Greek myth. Greek myth can be counted as part of history.
The journey from Africa to the West Indies or North America Usually took about two months. However, the journey would take longer due to vagaries of bad weather that made navigation challenging