Money Vs Morality

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The third known way to obtain slaves was to pillage. All three ways were efficient, and often used. So the slaves were then loaded on a carrier ship. The slaves were loaded into the basement of the ship, a hot, musty, and dark place. Think of the worst place you could imagine, and think of staying there for days at a time. Some tried to escape, but for those who got away, they drowned in the Atlantic. Slaves, who tried and did not succeed, it was a whipping that was horrific.
Slave trading was simply an economical advantage by the English. Other countries in Europe had used slaves before. The English had waited to use slaves until the indentured servants had dried up. Once that happened, the English were importing slaves by the hundreds from Africa. One New Englander said that they could equal the cost of twenty slaves to one indentured servant. It took until the late 1700's to begin the abolishment of slavery. This all started with "An act for the gradual abolition ...

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