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History of slavery Between 1500 and 1870, approximately 11 million men and women were transferred across the Atlantic Ocean into slavery
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the colonists originally decide to purchase slaves because they were all desperate for labourer to work their tobacco fields.
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there were many deadly diseases on the ship because the slaves were not taken care of properly. So many people died from that, and being starved to death also. Because the ship was very nasty and dirty not cleaned up or anything the humans were treated as if they were animals there were rats running around so the food they did get was contaminated.
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slave trade In the 1800s until the effective suppression of the trade, an estimated 4,000,000 slaves entered the Americas
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a home to over 100 house and fields slaves
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Reward poster for a african american who ran away.
