History Of African Slavery

Commenceing in 1619 Africans suffered greatly to gain the now reffered to title of African-Americans. They were taken (kidnapped) from their families, their loved ones, in Africa and forced to become slaves. Many of them were also sold into slavery by beloved corrupt leaders of their own tribes. Through the years an estimated total of 29 to 31 million slaves were crammed into slave ships headed to America, were millions of them died of disease,starvation, and suicide on the journey. These are only estimates because the kidnappers didn’t value the innocent slaves lives enough to keep records of their expendable “ Cargo”. Aside from this tremendous adversity, my ancestors endoured, and was then exposed to early America’s idea of “The Land of the Free”.

Slaves weren’t considered people just “objects” to be bought and sold to anyone at auction. Familes would be spit up and separated at auctions, leaving boy’s without fathers, daughters without mothers. These “objects” had no rights whatsoever if you were black, man or women, your only right was to be mistreated, abused,and discriminate...