It all started the year 1492 when Christopher Columbus tried to find a seaway to India, but he
ended up in America. And discovered the people he named The Indians. When he came back he
told everybody about his found and showed everybody all the good stuff he had got. After that
everybody wanted to get over there, so people from Spain sailed to America and began to explore
south and Central America. They found cities which already was inhabited, then the Spanish
people wanted to have a part of it, but they thought that the people wasn’t civilized and they
were barbaric. So they murdered many many people. Over 150 years the number of people got
reduced from 80 million to about 3.5 million people. People thought that indigenous wasn’t
worth anything so they told them that could die or be a slave. So the Americans started farms and
mine and used the indigenous to slaves. In Europe they did they same thing. They imported black
people from Africa and used them to slaves, to be a slave was really hard. They worked day in and
day out. They didn’t get money for it, only some cheap clothes they could work in rest of their
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