Im not going to lie, this is no regular english class. It's not just research paper after research paper. I have now a whole new perspective on the slave trade in general due to our class discussions. I first saw it as people paying for other human beings as if they were property. It's safe to say that what we all learned in j.h.s and in high school. In our history books it shows most if not all slaves were being put in horrible working conditions and how they needed to be freed

Now we know thats not the whole story. Turns out everything i taught was not wrong but not the whole picture which is what the author is trying top teach us. The slave trade legitimate business which is the back bone on what build the new world. I realize now in our history books they tell us the europeans created the new world. I realize it was the slaves themselves who did all the work and got no credit for it. 

Something which was also pointed out in our discussions is how even tho slavery was abolished after the civil war, the idea that if you were a "negro" you were born by nature to be a slave never left the "white mans" mind. African Americans were not given the opportunity to prove to  be more than slaves. They are people who can also grow to be something more. 

These are very interesting topics. looking forward for more