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THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
SAMET DAĞTAŞ

World History Essay 1

THE MIDDLE PASSAGE

States in Europe have begun to invade the American Continent in 16. century. Especially, Spanish invaders enslave and run indigenous people who live in America in sugar cane farm and mines in very poor conditions. Indigenous people have disappeared in a short time because of Europa people's infectious diseases and poor working conditions. Upon this the Spaniards and the Portuguese turned to Africa to find a source of cheap labor. Slave trade was legitimized in the Kingdom of Spain in 1502.[1] In 1509, the catholic bishop of the chiapas city of the Spain, Bartolome de Las Casas said that; ''Spanish settlers who goes to America should take a certain amount slaves''. This advice is considered the beginning of the slave trade from Africa to America. To save American indigenous people and to improve relationship between the settlers of America and American indigenous people, The Laws of Burgos inserted into force by spanish Kingdom, in 27 December 1511 and this law has allowed black slavery.[2] In 1518, Lorens de Gominot took the first official permission to dispatch 4000 African slaves to America continent. In 1519 the first slave ship from Africa to Puerto Rico in American continent is thought to be moving. The beginning of the slave trade there were not a link between the slave trade and racism. However, with the increase of African slaves, slavery and the negro were used in the same sense in the West. European Christians, did not accept other Europeans (whites) to be slaves. However, they did not have any objections for the slavery of black Africans, so the new target was Africa continent.[3] Africa, before the opened europa's intense effect, was one of the world's most stagnant societies in terms of social mobility. Everyone was swapping each other who was not

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