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slavery: Antigua
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How the Whitney Plantation teaches the history of slavery
Study the history of the African slave trade and its economic effect on western Africa, where coastal states became rich and powerful while savanna states were destabilized as their people were taken captive
What happened during the Amistad mutiny?
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