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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I think it's A because they were displaced and leave their home
It would be about 39 degrees.
Controlled most of the trade in northern and central India
Hinduism is the oldest religious philosophy still practiced today. And Buddhism made its appearance a few hundred years later, having its roots in Hinduism.
Buddhism and Hinduism are similar in that they both believe in reincarnation.
Buddhism and Hinduism are similar in that they both use meditation.
Buddhism and Hinduism are similar in that they both avoid attachment. Both Buddhists and Hindus practice non-attachment. This is mainly focused on material things and people. His belief is that attachment to material things will result in reincarnation. What to try to avoid. Therefore, both Hindus and Buddhists try to live spiritually. Avoiding attachment to the material world.
Among the differences that we can point out between these two models of philosophy and religion, it starts at a fundamental point. Hinduism believes in deities, Buddhism does not. In Buddhism, while after death what survives is the mind, in Hinduism, it is the soul.
Furthermore, when in meditation, the Buddhist aims to clear his mind, calming it down and establishing a moment of silence and peace, the Hinduist seeks, in this process, to reach a state of superior, transcendental mind.
