What would the world be like if the modern African slave trade had not occurred?
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Lower crime in America.  Lower unemployment in America.  We would probably be about 20 years behind in technology as the slaves freed allowed us to create assymbly lines from watching the work they did in the field.  The assymbly line, helped forward production and led to many more new technologies.\n\nDefinately a lower hostility between Blacks and Whites, some people can't leave the past in the past.
666123
slavery and colonization
256536
The only real changes I can think od would be 1. who the slave masters were and 2. the death of one god and the birth of another. I see little difference from north, central and south. They came, they saw, they conquered.
1136195
Two years.  First, war it would only be in the Middle East and Sub-saharan Africa.  The apathetic world leaders would sit on the sidelines while the world struggles, but soon after those areas are completely devoid of any decent human beings to murder and terrorize, violence would spread thoughout the world, eventually comsuming everything.
629637
If your looking for historic info, look up slave trading routes. Slaves were stored in the bahamian islands before being brought to america, they worked the cane farms there.
635149
I think so.  And it's a shame that more people haven't answered this question.  It's horrible what goes on in those regions, and people don't seem to care because Africans tend to be seen as lesser people.  Hence, the lack of action.
125481
you need to define the parameters of Slavery.  Do you mean during the anti-bellum period? Do you mean just in the years between the Civil war 1861-1865? Do you mena just in America or around the World.  Slavery is as Old as civilzation.  \n\nIf you are asking for a reference during America's history of salvery and defining the terms from the orginal colonies up until the immaciapation proclamation including the entire Slave trade industry, then the numbers are phenomial.  \n\nAre you just asking How many Black American Slaves that resided in the South Died or are you asking about the entire slave trade from Africa through West Indies up to the southern colonies?\n\nRedefine your question, and you can educate yourself by doing Yahoo or Google or Ask Jeeves searchs about the American Slave trade.
93187
some west africans worked for europeans helping to capture west africans and other africans to be taken through the triangle trade route for slavery.  africans had to stay aware of the europeans, so basicly they lived as paranoid people.
795330
Maybe from the country Niger, in Africa, where slaves used to be transported from.
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Try this link:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa
483870
Slavery has existed in every society, race, culture and religion for eons. It only began to be condemned in the Christian West since the religious fanatic abolitionists came on the scene in the early 1800s. St. Paul writes in the New Testament for Christian slaves to obey their masters. Slavery exists in many parts of the world today especially in Islamic countries where generally their slaves are Negroes. A slave trade still exists between esat Africa and Arabia. Of Course Negroes were the first to enslave other Negroes and then by the Arabs centuries before the Portuguese arrive on the west coast of Africa.
440976
Very few because there isn't any documentation of slaves and what they have are bills of sale. You would have to be living to be able to prove anything.
814449
History of slavery started in the continent of Africa. Tribes would war against each other and conquer, killing men mostly and keeping women. As trade started with the Europeans, African kings would barter and sell slaves to these Europeans traders for guns and other items, STARTING SLAVERY IN THE KNOWN WORLD!With there being so many countries in Africa know one knows who should pay who for this atrocity. This is just a fact of man's inhumanity to each other.In many African countries slavery still exists
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Probably not in the way that would be most satisfying for people like you and I. We live in a very frustrating time. We must keep reminding ourselves that is may take a hundred years, but historians will one day look back on this as a more than a mistake, but an actual act of terror perpetrated by the United States. \n\nFuture students will look back on it with the same kind of shame with which we view slavery.
441559
I do not foresee Africa thriving in this century or the next.  It really saddens me though, since I am an African myself.
1125263
its a huge question.  You can write books to fill a library.  \nIn Europe, it opened up new lands and great wealth.  In the Americas, destruction and loss of land, people, cultures, natural wealth etc. etc. etc.  In Africa, slavery like no other seen before it and more of the same as the Americas.  Asia, Colonization, stripping away of natural resources etc.  \n\nUnfortunately, sometimes one man's boon is another man's bust.
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??? Slavery has existed since the beginning of time. The N. American Slave trade existed for a very short time in comparison to other historical slave periods.\n\nThe United States has done an extraodinary thing in correcting a lot of its wrongs with Affirmative Action, Brown v The Topeka Board of Education, the Voting Rights Act and other measures.\n\nWe have a way to go, but of late we have the likes of the Oprahs, Powells, Woods, and other pioneers that we can point to and say America is overcoming.