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What did you learn?
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The story of Omar Ibn Said. Omar was a normal African American who was a Muslim and was very knowledgeable and lived a good life.He was taken as a slave by Christains as a slave to the Americas. His skills were highly valued and so he had been bought by the governor at the time for the purpose of educating others. Omar had learned many new Christain ideas and so that also influenced his writings. The book took a lot of work to find the backgrounds and discoveries that Omar had written.
🔗The Beautiful and
Forgotten Gravestones
🔗The Story of Omar
Ibn Said
🔗Slavery in Brazil
(Listen to the Audio)
🔗Voices and Faces of
Slavery in America
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🔗What was the nature
of slavery prior to the
Atlantic Slave Trade?
Pre Slave Trade, slavery was a mix of Europeans, African Americans, and Indian Americans. The Europeans who had came
🔗Why weren’t Native
Americans used as
slaves?
Because at the time of the European expansion, the Europeans were not as powerful. The Indegenous people had
🔗How did religion
connect to the Atlantic
Slave Trade?
As more Europeans converted to Christain the overall amount of demand of slaves was decreasing. Slavery
🔗Why didn’t
Europeans enslave each
other?
Because of the idea of slavery did not go with their beliefs. Also, everyone at the time had equal power and no one
to the Americas wanted to laborers so that they could use them for their purposes and so the idea of the Atalantc Slave trade came into play. African American o spring was the leading population for the rise of slavery and that also how African slavery was a major role the most control over the Americans and so they werent able to be used as slaves. An example is in Mexico, how the Chichimecas resisted Spanish conquest. di ered with their believed and to their religion it was a punishment that no human should ever receive. Religion was also a way to determine slaves, as the Christains would keep Muslim slaves as long as they were not Christain. government was dominant. As the European countries evolved, the hierarchy determined that no one could be the property of another.
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explain the di erences in
the new labor systems.
🔗European
Indentured Servitude
Until the early eighteenth century, the majority of Europeans who came to the Americas were not free settlers or elite landholders. They were indentured servants. Slaves who came from Europe were like any other slaves as they are able to be sold and bought, but unlike others, they are to attain freedom if they complete a contract, they also gave slave parents the right to have their child entitled to them.
🔗Slavery in Brazil
The slave trade lasted longer in Brazil than in almost any other country in the Americas. Slavery was abolished in the British and French Caribbean, the United States, and Spanish America a generation or more before it was abolished in Brazil. They realized that Indian slaves werent e ective and so they imported African American slaves. A main reason that they needed slaves was because of the production of sugar and the growing demand increased the need of slaves.
🔗Enslaved Africans
in America
To ensure their financial success, American slaveholders influenced political, legal, and social systems to limit both the mobility and the possibility of freedom for growing numbers of enslaved Africans and their o spring Enslaved Africans were often used for negotiations and labor because of their exposure to di erent regions and religions. Because of this, African slaves were very demanded and this in turn made most of the slave population Afriucan and also because of the rise of Aggricutltire.
🔗Encomienda
Systems
Under the encomienda system, prominent Spaniards were entrusted with native communities. In exchange for native labor and tribute, the Spanish lord would provide protection and education. They would use a systeem call the encomienda which is the exchange of slaves for protection and education provided by the Spanish lord. The slaves had almost no freedom and had to perform di cult tasks.
