Chapter 14 part two

Michelle Curran
1-23-18
Chapter 14 part two
In the second part of this chapter Strayer goes on to inform us about the people in the Atlantic slave trade. The Atlantic slave trade is a time where the Americas turned people into servants, also known as slaves. The phrase "indentured servitude" came up in this chapter. From the way I read it in the text and understood was it has to do with people coming from other countries (immigrants) but cannot afford it so someone from the Americas will pay for them to come and the person from the other country would have to work for them to pay off the money the other person gave them. The immigrants who had to do this were practically slaves to the people who lived in America. They had to work under the owner's power for 7 years doing all the dirty work the owners would not want to do. And if a child was born into this situation the child would have to help pay off the debt they were in. 

 Regarding Africa, the process of the Americas taking in the African people is that 1st they would capture them, then they would take them overseas, and then sell the African`s as slaves. Sometimes they would sell the females for sex trade (which sadly still goes on today). 

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