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Slavery


Peter, was a man who was enslaved in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1863, whose scars resulted from violent abuse by a plantation.

Slavery started as a means of using people as a trade for items such as Tobacco, Sugar and Cotton, it started when the British captured free African tribes and transported them upon slave ships in numbers of 400+ The slaves were then transported to the West Indies where they were sold to the owners of plantations, the goods (and some slaves) were then transported back to Britain, this triangular  trade became known as the "Slave Trade Triangle.