Colonization

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about six-hundred or more slaves. The ships made about thirty-nine thousand voyages from Africa to the Americas. The trips from Africa lasted about twelve weeks without any kind hygiene and minimum food supplies.
Slaves were chained during the whole trip until they arrived to where they were going to be sold, with little room to move. High mortality rates surrounded the slaves as they died from diseases. Conditions in these ships were so extreme that some slaves preferred to committed suicide by refusing to eat rather than continue living under this harsh environment.
Slaves form an important majority in some countries of the Americas, primarily in the Caribbean and Brazil because these were the main areas where ships would arrive. They also make up an important part of the American continent because they were transported and sold everywhere where they slowly started to form their roots. African slaves brought with them to this continent their religion consisting in witches ...

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