African American Slavery Research Paper

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In the sixteenth and seventieth century, Europeans began the plantation agriculture in the New World. They grew sugar, tobacco, rice, cotton. As the New world land became more available and convenient, civilized and fertilized for Europeans, the need of labor augmented. The west and West central African states, who were already involved in slave trading, supplied Europeans with African slaves across the Atlantic Ocean. Slaves were inexpensive to Europeans standard, they tend to live longer compared to European laborers who were vulnerable to diseases. Slavery is very much different from labor. Therefore, Africans became the major source of New World plantation labor. Nonetheless, they were not labor, but it was slavery. Slavery
Slaves were told how to behave, and if they did not behave certain they were punished. A slave’s master basically rule his life, whereas in labor the boss does not tell you how to behave or live you life outside of the work environment. As discussed in the article Fading From Memory: Historiographical Reflections on the Afro-Mexican Presence “Black intermarriage rates, notably with mestizos and Indians, increased markedly after 1650, as did consensual unions with whites”( Ben Vinson III, 60).Many masters had sexual relations with slave
Although Spanish had the mobility such as horses and steel weapons which Inca didn’t had defense against. It was the Indians fighting against Indians that helped Spanish conquest. Also, when Spanish arrived Inca was already falling. Many of the Indian empires were fed up of Inca rule which made them joined hands with Spanish to break free from Inca domination. Spanish promised Indians allies independence denied by Inca to gain support, but after the conquest the promises were forgotten. This was a huge advantage for Spanish because there were very few of them even though they had the advantage of their weapons. Inca army was mostly killed by other Indians not Spanish. Spanish were massively supported by Indian allies. Lima was saved by the army sent by the mother of Pizzaro’s young wife. Spanish left out the support that was given by Indian. The conquest would not have been possible if the Indians did not fight against the