Oh, dude, Cabeza de Vaca was actually enslaved by Native Americans for about six years. Yeah, he had quite the rough time wandering around the Gulf Coast, but hey, at least he survived to tell the tale, right? Like, being a slave for six years sounds pretty intense, but hey, at least he got a cool nickname out of it.
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The blacks were brought in 1619 sad huh !
Slave trade has been around for thousands of years. The ancient Greeks, Romans,Egyptians, pirates, and others traded, sold, and captured people to sell as slaves. The African slave trade was just an extension of slavery and had also been in existence for thousands of years. Slavery still exists today and Isis has produced a manual on the capture and treatment of slaves. Many are women and children in areas that they have taken. In Southeast Asia there are women who are sex slaves and children who are bought and sold for sex.
Columbia, today there are many towns that are prodominatly black and speak spanish due to Columbia being a slave port.
There are many European nations that were considered to be the biggest slave trader. France, Germany and Portugal are top on that list.