Justification of Black Slavery: How was a system justified that caused and accepted the exploitation and deaths of millions of black Africans in the Americas for the maximization of British profits?

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,5, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, language: English, abstract: In 1619 the first shipment of black Africans to British America arrived on the Atlantic coast of Virginia (cf. Morgan 2007: 21). This event marked the starting point for the development of a British large scale New World slave trading system that would eventually result in millions of Afr...