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    In the first place, inhuman control methods are administered to the slaves with absolutely little remorse. In Document 7, we learn that various savagely violent punishments are used to keep the slaves under control for petty crimes, such as absence from work, eating the sugar cane, or theft. In return, many slaves either receive a whipping, beatings, breaking of bones, seclusion in the dungeon, or a breaking of limbs to guarantee amputation. There is a clear loss of morality when it comes to…

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    Cindy Vue CIA Literature 02/03/15 Marlow got hired to a job. He travels across the English Channel to a city to sign his employment contract. While he was there he found the guy Fresleven by the Chiefs son and was left there. He was stabbed. "Why does Marlow feels strange before going to Africa and his journey?" He services the Belgian company. Marlow took the French steamer to Africa. He feel like his trip is like a nightmare. "Why does he feel like his trip is like a nightmare when he signed…

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    serve a wretched institution for centuries. Enslaved Africans endured all sorts of harsh treatment all their lives and desperately hoped to be freed from confinement one day. Selling slaves to other countries was highly profitable for African slave traders and European merchants. However, Africans were taken away from their homeland to become a slave elsewhere. The institution of slavery has been abolished because it was responsible for destroying thousands of African families. The lifelong…

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    a lot of determination, organization, and tenacity by the minority group immigrants and their white sympathizers. Canada in its early days was a young British nation that was populated mainly by farmers, fisher’s and fur traders. Early inhabitants were mainly French fur traders; and Britain’s need for supremacy, conquered the French settlers. The American Revolution brought thousands of British Loyalists to live in Canada, alongside the French-Canadians. Survival was the top priority for the…

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    investors. These men persuaded King Charles II of England that huge profits could be made by developing the fur trade in the northern part of North America. But before English, the idea of the Hudson’s Bay Company was initially created by two French fur traders Radisson and des Groseilliers. They discovered this way to help France become wealthy, and they tried to persuade the French to set up the trading post around the Hudson’s Bay. Unfortunately, French had no interest about this and the…

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    Rendezvous impacted the geographical movement of the American people. Rendezvous helped develop the west because they brought people together to trade various goods, they made it a profitable business to trap and hunt, and enticed trappers and traders to move west and map…

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    James Bridger was born on March 17, 1804. He was an Indian fighter, fur trapper, guide, and a trader. His father was a very happy innkeeper; he later became a fur trapper. James had three Indian wives over his life time James Bridger tale was just like the actual death of Jedidiah Smith. James Bridger died on the Santa Fe Trail, because he was under the lances of Comanche Indians. North America was where his family lived since the early conical period. Bridger volunteered to act in the…

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    Native Americans by the name of the Iroquois, who occupied the area underneath the Lakes of Erie and Ontario in northern part of New York and Pennsylvania, were way more effective in fighting off the European developments. In the late 15oo’s five tribes had joined together to form an independent nation of its own, they called themselves the "Ho-De-No-Sau-Nee," or League of the Iroquois. The “League” was run by an assembly which was made up of 50 senates all who were from each of the five…

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    blacks simply because they are white and obviously if faced persecution blacks would be as outraged as they are in the story. The blacks in the story outrightly refuse Dr. Golightly 's plan of accepting the offer and spreading the rumor that the Space Trader 's will bring them to extraterrestrial paradise to trick whites into refusing the offer…

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    on the triangular trade route and its middle passage to the New World. These slaves were majorly from the central and western parts of the continent that were sold by their fellow African s to the European Slave traders (Michelle 2012). Very few of which were captured the slave traders in coastal raids directly. The transatlantic slave is unique in that it took around four centuries; it mistreated black men, ladies and kids and lastly it lead to the development of anti-black ideologies commonly…

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