The Dutch, for a while, controlled the slave trade. At first thousands, then hundreds of thousands of slaves, mostly from Africa, were being transported from various parts of the world. There were even traces of slavery in some African kingdoms. Slavery became a way for wealthy landowners to own larger fields of crops and have labors to do the work for a cheap price. It became popular and started to spread all of Europe. Along …showed first 75 words of 989 total…

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