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Africa 101 |
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Africa 101 |
The African Slave Trade is well known and well-remembered because of the Africa and United States link. Slavery was not a uniquely African experience, but it certainly reached major proportions in equating an African to a work animal. The residue persists to present day society.
The African-US slave trade globalized the trade, magnified it, and stamped it indelibly on modern society.
The outcomes are massive accumulation of physical wealth and power by the slave owners, and a massive accumulation of spiritual and moral wealth by the slaves. This inequity in distribution of human characteristics has contributed to a disparate set of priorities and life paradigms that allow generations of descendants to view the exact same incident or issue in exactly opposite viewpoints.
Since slavery was abolished in 1834, and since concepts like equal opportunity and affirmative action has been adopted and enacted, the lines between the slave-trade descendants are not clearly delineated, except in one area, international racism.
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