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Slaves were being traded for manufactured goods to America to work for the rest of their lifes.
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Slavery existed before the Europeans started going to Africa and capturing slaves. Africans would capture their own people during wars, and people from other countries would capture them.
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Europeans began contact with West Africa, and the Portuguese were looking for a shorter route to India. They mainly wanted gold from the Western African empires.
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Europeans bought few slaves to Europe to use them as indentured servants. The slaves would work a certain amount of years for thei freedom.
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Bartholomeu Dias rounded the southern tip of Africa, but he did not make it all the way to India.
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Vasco de Gama followed Dia's route and made it to India
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Europeans began to bring slaves to America to work and gain their freedom. Then the slaves began to work for the Europeans for life.
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King Affonso 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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This decade was the height of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
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Europeans were talking about getting ride of slavery.
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The British set up Sierra Leone as a colony for freed slaves to return to Africa.
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The British outlawed slave trade, but they did not outlaw slavery. People could still own slaves, but they could not trade them.
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British banned slavery in their empire.
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Liberia was organized by slaves from the United States. Liberia became a independent country in 1847.
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The Civil War ended, it was a war caused partially by slaves.
