Riches Made By Way of Exploitation

A few days ago, I watched a video on "Native America before European Colonization" and was amazed that while it condemned the Spanish on what they did to the Incas and Aztecs, it avoided mentioning that the English almost wiped out the Indian tribes of North America. From a few millions, their number was reduced to a few thousands. Now they are forced to live in reservations. The descendants of these people who were the original inhabitants of the Americas are trying to fight for their rights.

The video also mentioned:
a) That the disease syphilis came from the Americas. It did not state that it could have come from Europe but was unnoticed. Scientists are still debating as to the actual origin of this disease which is suspected to have existed in Europe along with leprosy.

b) That the introduction of cattle and sheep destroyed the livelihood of the American Indians.

c) That the whites claimed the land as their own. They became rich with the help of slave labour from Africa.

However, it was not only the Europeans who made use of slave labour.

The Bible tells of the Israelites reduced to slaves in Egypt.

Britain had a prominent role in Atlantic slave trade whereby people from Africa were transported to America. Wikipedia states:
"David P. Forsythe wrote: "The fact remained that at the beginning of the nineteenth century an estimated three-quarters of all people alive were trapped in bondage against their will either in some form of slavery or selfdom."

There had been slavery since ancient times. Slavery has now been made illegal. However, slavery continues in another form, human trafficking. It is estimated that human trafficking involves about 29.8 million who end up as slaves somewhere in the world.