They established a policy of religious freedom for all inhabitants of Louisiana
Africa has a large quantity of natural resources, including diamonds, sugar, salt, gold, iron, cobalt, uranium, copper, bauxite, silver, petroleum and cocoa beans, but also woods and tropical fruits. Having a low human density, for a long period of time Africa has been colonized by more dynamic groups, exploiting African resources.
The Open Door Policy is a term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the United States policy established in the late 19th century and the early 20th century, as enunciated in Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door Note, dated September 6, 1899 and dispatched to the major European powers.
The exact time a captured African spent from capture until disembark in the West Atlantic changed according I) to where he/she was captured and final destination and II) to when it happened. The travel from West Africa to Brazil in the XIXth century, for example, when transportation had become more efficient, took around 30 to 45 days.
At the beginning of the systematic Atlantic slave trade, in the early 1500s, the travel from West Africa to Central America lasted two to three months. In the mid-nineteenth century the travel to Bahia (Brazil) lasted 3 weeks and to Cuba lasted 5 weeks.
