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Once they arrived in the Americas, slaves were seen as pure money and property. There is evidence from source B of the Source Analysis Test that supports my theory. Source B shows that slave traders and slave owners discussed only the prices of the slaves based on how worn out they were, just as if they were objects. Human characteristics were not discussed and this shows that they were only seen as objects with no emotion that you can beat them if they do something you don’t like or you disagree with.

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Angola was a Portuguese colony during the beginning of the 19th century. Since its discovery by the Portuguese in 1482, Angola has been a major exporter of enslaved people.

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Brazil was experiencing a revolt against Portugal, which was its colonizer, and 7 years later Brazil proclaimed its independence. The current Portuguese monarch was king João VI.

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Jesuits and other religious orders brought many slaves to Argentina during the 17th century and 18th century. Argentina played an important role in slave trading and Buenos Aires was a center of slaves that worked on many locations such as universities, churches and ranches. Slavery was abolished in Argentina in 1853, but in Buenos Aires only in 1861.

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Just as in ship #2. The slaves were bought in the kingdom of Ardra, but more precisely in the kingdom of Dahomey, because Ardra was conquered by Dahomey during this time period. We also know exactly what the port is now.

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Port Louis is a French port and during the 18th century and many French vessels were located there, so it was a common port for slave ships. The current French monarch at the time this vessel did its voyage was King Louis XIV and France was experiencing peace and prosperity at this time, which later in this same century would culminate in a total chaos during the French revolution.

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(Ship was not able to finish its course and landed on Tenerife, Spain)
Disclaimer: I was not able to connect Benin to Tenerife because of some crazy bug, but the real route was: Netherlands, Benin and then Spain.

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The kingdom of Ardra (current south Benin) was a kingdom founded by the Aja settlers (Aja is an ethnicity from Africa). The Aja settlers founded the Kingdom of Ardra in the 12th century, and by the 16th century, Ardra had a total of 200,000 inhabitants in the total state and 30,000 in the Capitol, Allada. The kingdom of Ardra had control of three major sea ports, Offra, Jaquin and Whydah. These ports played an important role in slave trade. Ardra sold around 125,000 slaves during 1640 and 1690. Slavery was how the kingdom of Ardra obtained money to pay their tributary debts to the Oyo Empire.

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Netherlands:
Current ruler: (No ruler at that time, the previous ruler was William II and he was Stadtholder of the Netherlands, until 1650, there was a regent Stadtholderate until his son William III assumed office in 1672. Situation: Netherlands was going through a golden era in the 17th century and was at the top of Europe’s economy, so they played an important role on slave trading during that time period. The Netherlands also had solid agriculture and fishing, and they were also trying to expand into the Americas and Africa.

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Cape Verde Islands: The Cape Verde islands were discovered by the Portuguese in the 15th century and since before that the island was empty of people. Until the 17th century the Cape Verde Islands were of major importance for slave trading, and its economy was dependent on that.

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Slavery was abolished in Colombia in 1852. Colombia was a colony of Spain in the 16th century. Spain was a country of major importance to slave trading, and Cartagena, a portuary city, was also of great importance to this kind of trade.

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Portugal: Portugal's current king was Rei Sebastão I. Portugal was alongside Spain the pioneer of sea traveling and slave trading. This ship I am researching, although it was a Portuguese ship, it took slaves not to Brazil (a Portuguese colony), but to Colombia.