Part 4

Part 4 The Early Modern World

 As much as I learned about slavery, it still amazes me how it happen, how long it happen & how it still plays a part in current times.  At first goods were traded then human beings. The justification for this was that Africans were sub human. Therefore the slaves were brought over to do the labor work that no others wanted to do. They were taken to thee sugar plantation and endured hard labor. One thing that was interesting to me me was where the word "slave" came from. According to the book, "Initially, Slavic-speaking peoples from the Black Sea region furnished the bulk of the slaves for the Mediterranean plantation, so much so that "Slav" became the basis for the word"slave" in many European languages." I  never thought of where the name came from because its such a horrific tragedy, the name is insignificant.
  I have mixed feelings about how the slaves were treated. Although not all slaves had the hard labor some were in the house or helping in the store. Whether in the fields or in the house it doesn't matter, there was nothing good about slavery. Africans were taken from their home, stripped of their families and language and taken against their will to a foreign placed and was dehumanized. What was "good" about that?