African American Greatest Injustice

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Due to being the most inhuman way people were treated, slavery of the African American people is the world's greatest injustice. The 245 years of slavery and then the years after slavery is one of the world’s greatest injustice towards the millions that were affected. Slavery of African Americans is wrong because the way they got captured and transported, Slavery started when America was found after a while, Settlers in North America turned to African slaves as a cheaper, more plentiful labor source than indentured servants. The Middle Passage was the crossing from Africa to the Americas, which the ships made carrying their “cargo” of slaves. They would kidnap African Americans to be sold as slaves and the ones that fought back would be killed.

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