Chapter 5

     The regular approach to history written by English speakers is challenged in the review of the discovery of the New World. We take a look at major milestones in the past through a magnifying glass. Prior to the New World , the only individuals who had not had substantial experience  with black persons was English speakers. At that time black persons had already had trading relations with the Portugal. There were already Africans in Spain and Portugal.

     After being able to go and enter into trading enterprises in Africa and be so prosperous, some English persons pushed for  more power as a result. They saw that the Africans worked on their land: "why not have them come work my homeland so that I can be prosperous everywhere?" Traders saw another profit because they knew others would pose the same idea. The Portuguese and Spanish were already shipping slaves. The English wanted to be ahead, so they pushed further and turned North America and Caribbean colonies into major imports. They came late, pushed hard, and became big in slave trade as a result.

     At some point the identity of traded objects was shifted onto the workers of that object (cargo). The Africans were striped of their freedom of choice and stamped as profitable cargo. Slave. Because Africans were seen as savage, they were seen as less human. In this the English saw them as animals that, like  any other animal at that time, could be be used in anyway possible to make their English life easier.