Was African Slave trade a blessing in disguise?Did nature mix different races through slavery?
Clearly this all depends on how you define “a blessing in disguise”. If you mean, “did some slaves bought to North America and the Caribbean benefit?” the answer is yes. Some were given an education, taught a trade, given responsibilities, and probably had a better life than they would have otherwise. But the reality of slavery was this: hundreds of thousands of free living, life enjoying men, women, and children were rounded up over the course of 250 years, chained like animals, put on ships to a strange land (almost a third died on the journey), sold like animals, not allowed to get an education, had no say in where they went or what they did. They were beaten cruelly if they attempted to refuse the work assigned. They could sometimes marry, but either the man or woman could be sold and sent away at anytime. Field hands had the worst lot of the various classes of slaves. They were regarded as having less value than a mule or ox. Following abolition in the late 1860s, life was not muc
