Chapter 15 Part 2

This part of the chapter is about the Atlantic slave trade!! Whenever I think about slavery, I always kind of wonder why they picked Africans to be their slaves. I mean, I know that it was because of their color... but in the book I read that "largely through a process of elimination, Africa became the primary source of slave labor." So there were actually no more Slavic or Native American slaves because they were either dead or unavailable (thanks to Europeans). And also, Europeans and Christians were apparently exempt by God from being slaves because they're just so cool. So they thought, "Hey! Let's enslave Africa! Plus they're a different color than us so they're weird!" And then Americans proceeded to kickstart a racial feud that would really last forever. Even today, people are accused of pulling "race cards" and other stuff like that. Because African Americans were enslaved by white men, there is still tension that exists today, whether we realize it or not.