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7 pages. The African Slave trade encompasses a large part of our history that should never be forgotten; not to be remembered for the atrocities in order to re-live them again and again, but to remember how far we have come from those days, and how far we have yet to go. This paper reflects upon how African slavery began, the journey to the new land, how it impacted the colonies and what life was like as a slave. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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INTRODUCTION The African Slave trade encompasses a large part of our history that should never be forgotten; not to be remembered for the atrocities in order to re-live them again
and again, but to remember how far we have come from those days, and how far we have yet to go. This paper reflects upon how African slavery began,
the journey to the new land, how it impacted the colonies and what life was like as a slave. AFRICAN SLAVERY: THE BEGINNING For more than 1000 years, Arab
traders transported African slaves across the Indian Ocean to the Arabian Peninsula, the Persian Gulf, and Asia. Hundreds of years later these traders were joined by the European slave traders
who brought large numbers of Africans to the Mascarenes and other Indian Ocean islands and to the Americas. Because the early Arab traders left few surviving records, it is
difficult to estimate how many Africans they took across the Indian Ocean as slaves. However, it is very likely that the number would be comparable to the seven to
ten million Africans that were shipped across the Atlantic although it was over a much longer period of time (Almasy 2001). The earliest Arab traders probably voyaged to the East
Coast of Africa on small ships called dhows. The difference between them and the slave traders who centuries later crossed the Atlantic was that the Arab slave merchants were
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