But responsibility for the slave trade is not simple. On the one hand, it was indeed the Europeans who purchased large numbers of Africans, and sent them far away to work in their colonies. On the other hand, Africans bear some responsibility themselves: some African societies had long had their own slaves, and they cooperated with the Europeans to sell other Africans into slavery. The Europeans relied on African merchants, soldiers and rulers to get slaves for them, which they then bought, at convenient seaports.
Africans were not strangers to the slave trade, or to the keeping of slaves. There had been considerable trading of Africans as slaves by Islamic Arab merchants in North Africa since the year 900. When Leo Africanus travelled to West Africa in the 1500s, he recorded in his The Description of Africa and of the Notable Things Therein Contained that, "slaves are the next highest commodity in the marketplace. There is a place where they sell countless slaves on market days." Criminals and prisoners of war, as well as political prisoners were often sold in the marketplaces in Gao, Jenne and Timbuktu.
Perhaps because slavery and slave trading had long existed in much of Africa (though perhaps in forms less brutal than the slavery practised in the Americas), Africans were untroubled by selling slaves to Europeans.
Answer:
Scots-Irish Protestants
Explanation:
The Scots-Irish Protestants were the largest number of European immigrants to colonial America in the 18th and 19th centuries. Around 200,000 Scots-Irish Protestant people migrated from Europe to American in that era. They settled around Pittsburgh, New York, and Philadelphia, whereas the first group arrived and settled in New England.
Answer:
6 month
Explanation:
A group of protestors, led by Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays, began a 6 month rebellion by taking over the Court of Common Pleas in Northampton; the goal was to prevent the trial and imprisonment of debt-ridden citizens.
Answer:
c.
Explanation:
Based on the information provided within the question it can be said that the best representation of this would be to accept initial offers of favors in good faith, but be ready to react to them as tricks, not favors, if they are later revealed as exploitation devices. This will make you seem grateful but at the same time remain defensive in case they try to exploit the reciprocity rule and want something in return.
