Rope Break Fury

Author: Wright
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Most "great" civilizations were created by slave labor, which is an unfortunate historical fact. Thousands of years ago, in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, the vast majority of work was done by slaves. Slaves were not treated as human beings. If you were a slave, you were considered inferior. In 1835, European powers such as Spain, France, and Britain, along with the United States, signed an agreement to prohibit the buying and selling of new slaves. The transport of new slaves from Africa was forbidden; however, the status of already captured slaves remained unchanged, and their children would still become slaves. At that time, slaves were primarily used on large plantations to grow sugar, tobacco, and cotton. Did the slave trade stop here? Of course not. The price of new slaves actually rose sharply to compensate for the high risks of transporting enslaved Africans from Africa. The ships used to transport slaves from Africa to Havana were small, fast, two-masted sailing ships, most of which were manufactured in shipyards in the northeastern United States. The Amistad, of course, was one of them. Its original name was "La Amistad," and in Spanish, "Amistad" means "friendship." Once the transport was successful, even just once, slave traders could earn a significant amount of money. This money could be used to buy another ship or was enough as capital to operate a legitimate business. Because the price of slaves was extremely high! In Havana, Cuba, each slave transported by the Amistad was worth 450 dollars. If they could be smuggled to the southern United States, where large cotton and tobacco plantations still used slave labor, they could be sold for double the price! At that time, a sailor could earn 300 dollars a year, while a captain earned 800 dollars. This is a true story.