... part of one hundred years to finalize their 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 ... , and industry of slavery helped to shape some of the biggest cities in the world, at the time. The amount of money brought in by the slave trade, the completion of menial tasks, and the hard work of skille...

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... part of one hundred years to finalize their 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 ... , and industry of slavery helped to shape some of the biggest cities in the world, at the time. The amount of money brought in by the slave trade, the completion of menial tasks, and the hard work of skille...

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

... have yet to explain fully these age and gender variations between African regions and over time. Why was African labor forcibly transported thousands of miles to the Americas to work in the economies of the New World? In the past, historians have argued that Africans were a low-cost labor alternative to scarce Indian labor (scarce, because most Indian populations were destroyed by disease ... . In this view, the organization of 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 ...

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