The first major development comes in 1417, when Prince Henry of Portugal seized the Madeira Islands off the northern part of West Africa. In 1450, Portugal created the …show more content…
From Garrido and Gonzales helping to seize Puerto Rico to the Africans who helped seize the Capital of Tenochtitlan and the conquest of the Incas in Peru. This is the most important to me because it showed the true heart of the soldier and navigation spirit of the African people.
The event that interested me the least was a fact that Equiano recalled on the slave ship. “Even known them (sailors) to gratify their brutal passion with females not ten years old.” This event showed the true nature of slave ship owners who rationalized human trafficking based on the fact that Africans were heathens, who in fact themselves were the true ungodly people.
In the last decade American historians may have considered that Africans were responsible for the Trans Atlantic slave trade because of the facts that African chiefs did in fact sell slaves to Europeans. In my opinion if Europeans did not expand into Africa territories and corrupt the African people with guns and power there may have never been an African slave