what was the first country to  get slaves from africa?
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Portugal was the first they had all the maps of the coast of Africa which gave them a head start.
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During 1400s, Portuguese sailors began exploring coast of Africa \nbringing back with them goods (including slaves) to Europe
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The Irish were the first slaves, in the 1840's.
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Born into slavery in Maryland, Harriet Tubman freed herself, and played a major role in freeing the remaining millions.  She is often called "the Moses of her people."
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its a huge question.  You can write books to fill a library.  \nIn Europe, it opened up new lands and great wealth.  In the Americas, destruction and loss of land, people, cultures, natural wealth etc. etc. etc.  In Africa, slavery like no other seen before it and more of the same as the Americas.  Asia, Colonization, stripping away of natural resources etc.  \n\nUnfortunately, sometimes one man's boon is another man's bust.
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slavery and colonization
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South Africa. That would be the first world cup help on the african continent. The other candidates were Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia
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First of all there were black people in the bible *shock*. One of the disciples is even refered to as Niger, which in Greek, yes Greek, this is not a misspelling of "the N-word", it means- "The Black Man". So, blacks even followed at the footsteps of Jesus when he was living. In the New Testament era, slavery was not an all bad thing. Slaves were required by law to be released at age 33, they were paid for their work and recieved the lump-sum at their release, and after they were release they became Roman citizens. It actually was a pretty good deal, assuming your "owner" treated you well, and most did from all of the accounts we have. Most slaves once released used the skills they learned and the money they made to go open their own business. Oh, and most Roman slaves were white. Also, there is a Ethiopian eunich mentioned in the New Testament, most likely he was black, and he became a Christian as well. So, Christianity and black Christians far outdates the White to black slavery you are refering to.
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I think the question is how WEREN'T they punished!! \n\nThe slaves were not treated as human beings, they were treated like animals....actually worse than animals....this is a powerful subject....you should definitely do a lot of research into this, there are many resources on the slave trade. Try your local library, ask the librarian for help.
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B is the nearest correct answer. Western Africa was called both the Gold Coast and the Ivory Coast. Cote d'Ivoire is still a nation there.\n\nPortuguese ships rounded Cape Bojador in 1434, Cape Verde in 1445, and by 1480 the whole Guinea coast was known to the Portuguese. In 1482 Diogo Cão reached the mouth of the Congo, the Cape of Good Hope was rounded by Bartolomeu Dias in 1488, and in 1498 Vasco da Gama, after having rounded the Cape, sailed up the east coast, touched at Sofala and Malindi, and went from there to India. Portugal claimed sovereign rights wherever its navigators landed, but these were not exercised in the extreme south of the continent.\n\nThe Guinea coast, as the nearest to Europe, was first exploited. Numerous European forts and trading stations were established, the earliest being São Jorge da Mina (Elmina), begun in 1482. The chief commodities dealt in were slaves, gold, ivory and spices\n\nOH, FYI, the priestly class in India were the Brahmins.
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some west africans worked for europeans helping to capture west africans and other africans to be taken through the triangle trade route for slavery.  africans had to stay aware of the europeans, so basicly they lived as paranoid people.
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Actually, the foundations go back to the beginnings of the African slave trade.  Prior to the African slave trade, enslavement was not an act of racism.\n\nIn the past slaves were criminals, children sold by their parents, or prisoners captured in war time.  In some asian and middle eastern cultures such slaves are still openly traded (official government positions are that it is illegal, but the laws are not enforced).\n\nWhen Britain banned the enslavement of British residents in the 16th century , slave traders needed to find a new source of slaves.  They discovered that African tribes were willing to sell members of their tribes and thus began the trade of African slaves in the western world.\n\nThe reason that the trade of British residents was outlawed was because the church had concluded that slavery was incompatible with Christian Values.  In order to reconcile the trade of African Slaves with their Christian beliefs the British and later the French looked for evidence that Africans were not fully human.  They used everything from the way they stood to the fact that they had no written language to justify their stance that Africans were not fully human.\n\nAs African slaves learned to speak English and as some learned to read and write the slaves began to produce intelligent ideas into the culture both in Europe and in the American colonies.  This disproved the theory that Africans were less than human. \n\nThe new justification for holding African slaves became converting them to Christianity.  This justification could be validated until the international slave trade was banned by Britain in the late 18th century and by the rest of Europe and the United States in the early 19th century.  Within a generation nearly all African slaves had converted to Christianity.  \n\nAfter 300 years of African slavery, that enslavement was deeply rooted into the cultures and into the economies of Europe and the United States.  \n\nAbolitionist groups had begun forming in the late 18th century, but in the early 19th century their support bases grew quickly. Abolitionist papers were published openly in the U.S. and underground in most European countries.  \n\nIn the Mid 19th century western countries began outlawing the ownership of slaves.  Britain was the first (It was outlawed, but the trade continued in their colonies), followed by the other countries of western Europe.  It was only in the United States that the ending of slavery resulted from a war.  \n\nThe former owners of slaves and those who were too poor but had envied slave holders turned on the newly freed slaves particularly in the United States.  The KKK for example was formed as a political action group to eliminate republican party candidates from national offices but changed their focus to persecuting freed slaves after the civil war.  \n\nIn response to the racist propoganda Black advocate groups such as the NAACP were formed.   \n\nDuring reconstruction many freed slaves moved to northern cities.  Shortly after reconstruction a recession occured and there were accusations that blacks were taking the jobs of white men. Added to the tension was the fact that many of the whites in those cities had rarely or never seen a black person. Fueled by the propoganda put out by racist groups, fights broke out between blacks and whites.  These among other incidents led to the "seperate but equal supreme court decision" which at the time was supported by most black advocate groups.\n\nThe early twentieth century brought more conflict as Black advocate groups tried to enforce the equal part of "Seperate But Equal".  The racist groups fought back and gained support as Whites became defensive about their treatment (as a whole) of blacks.\n\nWhen the stock market crashed and a drought devestated the mid west, the focus of hate groups turned from the blacks in the cities to Mexican field hands in California and blacks came to be more accepted by society since they w
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Difficult to answer; here is one view (2nd link looks like better example):\nThe evolution of slavery is crucial to understanding the importance of currently standing issues. Slavery began in 1440 when Portugal started to trade slaves with West Africa. By the 16th century, Western Europeans developed an organized system of trading slaves. However, the slave trade did not run as smoothly as expected. Slaves were revolting and tried to flee the hardships of labor. Regardless of these attempts, slavery expanded, leading to the "Triangle Trade."   This trade, between Europe, Africa and the Americas, is held responsible for the dispersal of Africans in the Western hemisphere. This organized system lasted until the 1800's. Shortly after the War of Independence there was an intended law to abolish slavery. This law was stalled when the United States allowed the slavery to continue until 1800. A federal law, which was passed in 1793, allowed for the Fugitive Slave Act, which continued the slave trade and prohibited the freedom of the Africans.
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To my knowledge, it is not true that Asians owned black slaves.  On the contrary, Asia has a long history of venerating Black people as their Gods.  Many of their Buddhist Statues are of Black African men.  Please check the links below.  Also genetics now proves that the first Chinese were Black African.\nIn terms of slavery in general many white europeans owned other whites as slaves, both in europe and in the New World (America).  This fact is not taught in history class.  But the fact remains that many whites were captured by other whites for "indentured servitude", a.k.a. slavery.  Check the history.  \nhttp://www.electricscotland.com/history/other/white_slavery.htm
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http://www.africa.com/\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa
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In order from most to least:\n\n1) Europe\n2) New worlders\n3) Africans
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thats because slavery has never ended, the mental drain of africa is an ongoing thing, europe and americas where all built by africans.\nand to be quite honest africa has its own problems to be worried about what happened in the past especially when there is so much shit going down in this continent