... construction of a legal status quite unknown in the Common Law of England, to declare unequivocally that Africans were a form of property; that they were, and henceforth would remain, "strangers" and "outsiders" who would be required to live out their lives according to an entirely different set of laws from those that governed people of European birth and ancestry. By 1710, a racially ... ...

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... construction of a legal status quite unknown in the Common Law of England, to declare unequivocally that Africans were a form of property; that they were, and henceforth would remain, "strangers" and "outsiders" who would be required to live out their lives according to an entirely different set of laws from those that governed people of European birth and ancestry. By 1710, a racially ... ...

• Word Count: 4052
• Approx Pages: 16
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... a European slave trade to the African coast has less to do with economics and more to do with developing European imperial ambitions to enslave and dominate those people defined as outsiders. Scholars have also disagreed over the size of this forced Atlantic migration. To many, the size of the transatlantic slave trade represents the scale of European destructive impact on Africa ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate