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Slavery routes – a short history of human trafficking (3/4) | DW Documentary

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    This is the story of a world whose borders
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    and territories were drown
    by the slave trade,
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    where violence, subjugation
    and profit imposed their own routes.
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    This criminal system shaped our history
    and our world.
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    On São Tomé, the Portuguese
    invented an economic model
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    with unprecedented profitability:
    the sugar plantation.
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    This was the first black colony,
    the first slave society.
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    We witnessed the *marriage of the black men
    was sugar cane.
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    In the 16th century, other European powers
    were eager to follow their model.
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    Their greed would plunge
    an entire continent into caos and violence
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    Nearly 13 million Africans were cast onto
    new slavery routes to the new world
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    where the English, the French
    and the Dutch hoped to become wealthy,
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    immeasurably wealthy.
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    Because the Caribbean
    has similar climatic features to São Tomé,
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    it eventually became
    the principal crossroad of the slave trader's route
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    For people on the western world,
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    these islands are today
    associated with vacation.
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    Guadeloupe offers tourists
    a dream destination.
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    Sunshine and pristine nature
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Slavery routes – a short history of human trafficking (3/4) | DW Documentary
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