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" across the Southeast. They taught the colonists to grow rice. They grew and picked the cotton that at the height of slavery was the nation’s most valuable commodity.... They built the plantations of George Washington" slavery  is the most important thing to cone from  the us at the time

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"Suicide attempts were so common that many captains placed netting around their ships to prevent loss of human cargo and therefore profit"
This line is important to me because it shows how bad it was and how the blacks wanted to commit suicide but were stopped because the whites didn't want to lose their profit.

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Suicide attempts were so common that many captains placed netting around their ships to prevent loss of human cargo and therefore profit; working-class white crew members, too, committed suicide or ran away at port to escape the brutality.  This line is important to me because africans would rather die free then live being a slave and being mistreated.

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"Most of these stories of brutality, torture and premature
death have never been told in classroom textbooks or
historical museums." This line was important to me because this history we are taught isn't always the full story and is edited to make history not as terrible as it was.

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"And in every sugar parish, black people outnumbered whites. These were some of the most skilled laborers, doing some of the most dangerous agricultural and industrial work in the United States." This line stood out to me because black people are always being used to do the hardcore work and are known for being skilled laborers since slavery.

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"They built the plantations of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, sprawling properties that today attract thousands of visitors from across the globe captivated by the history of the world’s greatest democracy."

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"Suicide attempts were so common that many captains placed netting around their ships to prevent loss of human cargo and therefore profit. This line is significant to me because it demonstrates how bad it was and how the blacks wanted to commit suicide, but because the whites did not want to lose their profit, they were stopped.

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"White gold drove trade in goods and people, fueled the wealth of European nations and for the British in particular, shored up the financing of their North American colonies."

White gold drove everything in the most wrong way.I just feel like most people should read this stuff because it is stuff you will never learn unless you go looking for it.

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"The very first person to die for this country in the American Revolution was a black man who himself was not free. Crispus Attucks was a fugitive from slavery, yet he gave his life for a new nation in which his own people would not enjoy the liberties laid out in the Declaration for another century." i find it crazy that I've never heard of this until now. This goes to prove that a lot of black history is not taught.

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"The trans-Atlantic slave trade, which began as early as the 15th century, introduced a system of slavery that was commercialized, racialized and inherited. Enslaved people were seen not as people at all but as commodities to be bought, sold and exploited. Though people of African descent — free and enslaved — were present in North America as early as the 1500s, the sale of the “20 and odd” African people set the course for what would become slavery in the United States." This doesn't really connect to me personally, but I think it's important because it provides a really nice surface level of understanding for the topic. It's not too long or too short, and it gives the audience some broad historical info.

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The very first person to die for this country in the American Revolution was a black man who himself was not free. Crispus Attucks was a fugitive from slavery, yet he gave his life for a new nation in which his own people would not en
joy the liberties laid out in the Declaration for another century." i find it crazy that I've never heard of this until now