History of Slavery

Slaveholders forbid African names and languages and got rid of African culture for slaves.

Europeans physically hunted down Africans to transport them into slavery the Americas

Slavery took place in Sicily, southern Italy, Russia, southern France, and Spain.

Slaves were brainwashed and stunned into submission and rarely resisted slavery.

Slavery is older than the first human records.

Slaves engaged in at least 250 slave ship rebellions.

Slavery was always based on race.

The first slaves arrived in what is now the U.S. in 1619

The most ancient civilizations (Ancient Egypt, Rome) had some form of slavery.

Slaves engaged almost exclusively in unskilled brutish field labor.

The slave trade permanently broke slaves' bonds with Africa