Revival History

"Inside The Most Horrific Slavery Breeding Farms of Cotton Plantations In the early 17th century the first African slaves were brought to the shores of North America marking the beginning of a dark chapter in the nation's history the transatlantic slave trade which had begun in the late 15th century saw an estimated 12.5 million Africans forcibly transported across the Atlantic between 1525 and 1866 with around 10.7 million surviving the brutal Journey this human cargo torn from their homes and families would become the backbone of the American economy for Generations. In 1619 the first recorded African slaves numbering around 20 arrived in Point Comfort Virginia aboard a Dutch ship this event though small in scale set the stage for the systematic enslavement of Africans in the American colonies as the Ganan scholar and poet aaia poignantly observed ""the story of the African in the Americas begins with with a river of tears and a trail of blood"" the emerg...

"Inside The Most Horrific Slavery Breeding Farms of Cotton Plantations In the early 17th century the first African slaves were brought to the shores of North America marking the beginning of a dark chapter in the nation's history the transatlantic slave trade which had begun in the late 15th century saw an estimated 12.5 million Africans forcibly transported across the Atlantic between 1525 and 1866 with around 10.7 million surviving the brutal Journey this human cargo torn from their homes and families would become the backbone of the American economy for Generations. In 1619 the first recorded African slaves numbering around 20 arrived in Point Comfort Virginia aboard a Dutch ship this event though small in scale set the stage for the systematic enslavement of Africans in the American colonies as the Ganan scholar and poet aaia poignantly observed ""the story of the African in the Americas begins with with a river of tears and a trail of blood"" the emerg...