One Hundred Seventy-Nine Degrees: The AfterMath

The year 1619 slavery was enacted with 13 colonies. Tribes were violently taken from their homes in Africa and transported to European Countries by water where they were chained together in the lower level of a boat. Africans were then auctioned off at the pier. Slave owners purchased the slaves, chained them together and walked them back to their place of residence. Slave handlers rode on horses on the side of 5 or 6 slaves chained together in hand and foot shackles as they walked them up ...