European Colonization And American Imperialism

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European colonization through imperialist aggression
Slavery is as old as civilization itself, it is an economic system where human beings are deprived from their personal rights and treated as property. Slavery systems had occurs in many civilizations throughout the world but one institution its well known for its global scale and distinct influence that brought a new dimension to trade of slaves. The atlantic slave trade was a period of time during the late 14th to the early 19th century, where more than 12 millions of African slaves were forcibly brought to the Americas in order to supply the demand of indian labor on the new world. Although, slavery has existed for a long time in the old world between Africa and Europe via the mediterranean

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