What are 5 interesting facts about slavery?
1. It has existed in every culture in the world from the beginning to just recently 2. Slavery exists in the world today, in one form or another. 3. African slave trade to the Americas was started by black Kings (Benin) to have money to buy Europeon trade goods, and gather gold. 4. In the pre-civil war American South, there were really blacks who owned other blacks as slaves and they didn’t treat their slaves any better than white slave owners. 5. In the USA, only about 10 – 12% of all Southern folk could even afford a slave. In the north U.S. Grant refused to free his slaves until it was made illegal by constitutional amendment.
