What I'm referring to is the Atlantic Slave Trade which popularized slavery world wide, portraying "blacks" as the primary target. Before then Africans traveled all over the world. There are historic accounts of African presence all over Europe in the middle ages, from art form to sports. Africans were residents of countries from there to the Middle East where Africans were also missionaries to spread there religious views to the different parts of "their world as they knew it," at the time. Our text talks about India having the largest number of enslaved Africans recorded. The slaves there however were not treated unjustly, and it was not race based slavery. The slaves there were worker form the fields to administration. Africans were sailors to soldiers, who traveled the trade ways. Queen Elizabeth I in 1556 recognized too many "blackamoores" and thought they should be sent back to Africa (The African Diaspora Experience, pg. 6). In these days Africans freely traveled to these different countries among the world, just like explores, they participated in the development of the Americas and
What I'm referring to is the Atlantic Slave Trade which popularized slavery world wide, portraying "blacks" as the primary target. Before then Africans traveled all over the world. There are historic accounts of African presence all over Europe in the middle ages, from art form to sports. Africans were residents of countries from there to the Middle East where Africans were also missionaries to spread there religious views to the different parts of "their world as they knew it," at the time. Our text talks about India having the largest number of enslaved Africans recorded. The slaves there however were not treated unjustly, and it was not race based slavery. The slaves there were worker form the fields to administration. Africans were sailors to soldiers, who traveled the trade ways. Queen Elizabeth I in 1556 recognized too many "blackamoores" and thought they should be sent back to Africa (The African Diaspora Experience, pg. 6). In these days Africans freely traveled to these different countries among the world, just like explores, they participated in the development of the Americas and