Fight the power
Fight the power. Stand on the shoulder of giants. Do great things for God, for humanity, for self and country.
Sugar and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade
Appetite for sugar in Europe created the need for cheap human labor in sugarcane plantations in South America and the Caribbeans. Since there weren't enough European indentured servants and indigenous South and North American populations were being decimated because of hard labor, merchantmen looked to the coast of West Africa for cheap human labor and the Transatlantic Slave Trade was born.
From humans to livestock
The West African slaves were transformed into commodity. Livestock to be sold and bought. They were arranged like logs of wood in the under belly of merchant vessels. Millions of African slaves lost their lives during the long journey to America. Those who survived would live and die as other people's property. This would continue until the American Civil War that ended slavery in US territories.
African families were shattered by slave trade
African families like these were shattered by the Transatlatic slave trade. Sometimes, family members were sold to different owners and many were destined never to see each other ever again. Africa continues to reel from the effects of the slave trade. Some are calling for reparations. But it does not look like that will ever happen.
The Origin of Soul Food
The African slaves had to improvise in their new land. They adapted North American food to the ones that were similiar to their own and Soul Food was born.
