Social Sciences and History / Unit 1 SSH 0004 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Slavery Before and After the Atlantic Crossing
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The idea
West Africa practiced forms of slavery before fourteen ninety-two, and the anchor stresses that none was racial or hereditary. The New World form was new: based on race, permanent, and inherited.
In practice
The Middle Passage carried captured Africans across the Atlantic to plantations.
Where people slip
The comparison is the anchor's. The course states it as such and does not soften either half of it.
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