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Practice dictation & shadowing on the daily life story: African Slavery in the Americas
African Slavery in the Americas
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African Slavery in the Americas
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One of the most tragic parts of the history of North and South America is the period of African slavery.
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For hundreds of years, many people were taken from Africa by force to work in the fields of many different countries in North and South America.
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When Europeans first came to the Americas, some of them realized that they might make money by growing crops and selling them in Europe.
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However, in order to make money, they would need a cheap source of Labor.
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Few Europeans would come to the Americas to work for low wages, so instead the landowners looked for slaves in the areas of great farms or plantations.
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There were few Indians, so they used another source of slaves, Africa.
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The plantation owners usually obtained slaves by buying them from local kings in western Africa.
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This led to many wars between rival kings within Africa who tried to capture each other's people in order to sell them as slaves.
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A few kings tried to avoid the slave trade, but this was very difficult.
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During a period of several 100 years, from the 1500s to the 1800s, about 12 million people were taken from Western Africa to the Americas.
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Many more people died as slaves before leaving Africa, and many more died on the ships that took them to the Americas.
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This was because the conditions on the ships were extremely unhealthy.
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The ships were far too crowded and there was little food and water.
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When the African slaves arrived in the Americas, the plantation owners made them work on farms that produce goods such as cotton and sugar.
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In many places they worked very hard and many of the slaves died from overwork.
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They were then replaced by other slaves who arrived from Africa.
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However, many slaves survived despite the brutal conditions.
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In some places, the African slaves were able to revolt against the plantation owners.
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However, this was difficult because the slaves who had recently arrived spoke many different languages.
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Some slaves escaped into wilderness areas and were able to remain free from the plantation owners.
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As time went by, many people in Europe and in the Americas realized that slavery was wrong.
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By the 1830s, slavery had been ended or abolished in islands owned by the British and in parts of the United States.
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In the southern United States, slavery was ended in the 1860s during the Civil War.
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In some countries, such as Brazil and Cuba, slavery only ended in the 1880s.
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Today, many millions of people in North and South America are descendants of slaves who were brought from Africa.
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The effects of slavery have lasted for many generations, and there was much racial prejudice against African people when slavery ended.
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However, some have achieved success despite these disadvantages.
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Today, the people of African background in North and South America are a very important part of the population in many countries.