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Europeans begin contacts with the people of West Africa. And Portugal Prince Henry was looking for a sea route to the new world.
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Slavery existed in Africa and elsewhere around the world. Slaves were part of the community - they were Servants rather than property.
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In the early 1500's slaves begin to come to America.
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King Alfonzo said to the Portuguese government, "It is our will that in these kingdoms there should not be any trade of slaves nor outlet for them."
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A trade network, with people as cargo linked Africa, Europe, and the Americas
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Height of the Atlantic slave trade. Europeans were bringing up to 60,000 Africans a year to the Americas.
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Talk of abolition by European thinkers
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Britain outlawed the slave trade, but the ban did not outlaw slavery.
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Britain banned slavery in it's empire.
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US Civil War partially caused by slavery
