Chapter 15 Part 2

This part of the chapter mainly talks about the Atlantic Slave Trade between Africa and Europe/Asia. I feel this is a very important topic in this book because this is something that still goes on today. Probably not in the same exact way and it is definitely not accepted by the majority of the world's population like it was back then. This part of the chapter mainly concerned itself with what kind of people were traded into slavery, why, and what they did. The typical people that were traded in the Atlantic Slave Trade were Africans because they were seen to be very strong and athletic so they were capable of doing the hard work that people wanted the slaves to do in the first place. The slave trade changed the lives of the African people immensely. The African people went from having freedom and well lived lives in their home countries to living under the orders of "superior people" because they didn't have power and resources like the others. They chose the Africans because they were easy to target. They had a lot of greed and they wanted the money that it would give to them. Also, they didn't take in to consideration that all people deserved rights. They never made laws that made it essential for everyone to have their rights, so they took for granted that these people were ignorant to it.