DAR ES SALAAM — [Liberian Observer] In the 1500s, Europeans became consumed with a dark ambition: to descend upon Africa and seize its people. Their goal was simple and cruel--to capture Black men and women and transport them across the ocean to work plantations without wages, without rights, without humanity - for ages. What some initially dismissed as "only a European enterprise" soon captured the attention of Americans. Ruthless businessmen calculated the profits to be made from African labor, and so they joined the trade with fervor.
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