African Slavery and the European Plantation System



African Slavery and the European Plantation System

Introduction

In each of the three books, Rediker, Zinn and Jordon talk of the African nation and the practice of slavery and and racial discrimination endured, and the slow evolution of the rights that they acquired with the passage of time. Howard Zinn talks of the first events of slavery that took place as well as the documentation of it by House of Representatives. In “the Slave Ship”, Marcus Rediker speaks of the evolution of the slave ship itself, and the horrendous conditions that the slaves were made to ...