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How the slave trade impacted upon the Caribbean & the slaves themselves.
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How the slave trade impacted upon the Caribbean & the slaves themselves. This essay will evaluate the impact on slavery upon the Caribbean and the slaves themselves and whether to some extent if the legacy of slavery is still effecting modern day today. In addition I am going to explain reasons for migration as well as the origins of the slave trade. Of all the many forms of suffering which man has inflicted upon man, with the exception of war, and, perhaps, of religious persecution, the slave trade has probably added most largely to the sum of human misery, and in the first half of the eighteenth century it occupied the very foremost place in English commerce. The people of the West Indies are where they are now because their forebears were transported in large numbers from Africa and Asia, involuntarily or voluntarily as part of colonial policies of European powers....
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