Prior to the end of the slave trade and widespread abolition, when indigenous labour was unavailable, slaves were often imported to the Americas, first by the Spanish Empire, and later by the Dutch, French and British.

Europeans brought transportation technology to the practise, bringing large numbers of African slaves to the Americas by sail.

The first major slave revolt in the Americas occurred in Santo Domingo during 1522, when slaves led an uprising in the sugar plantation of admiral Don Diego Colón, son of Christopher Columbus.

In the Americas, fur ( North America ) and sugar ( South America ) were the most important trade goods, while African settlements traded slaves — mainly destined for the plantations on the Antilles and Suriname — gold, and ivory.

The slaves were sold in Europe and, from the 16th century, in the Americas.

The maritime town of Lagos, Portugal, Europe, was the first slave market created in Portugal ( one of the earliest colonizers of the Americas ) for the sale of imported African slaves – the Mercado de Escravos, opened in 1444.

In the second half of the 16th century, the Crown gave up the monopoly on slave trade and the focus of European trade in African slaves shifted from import to Europe to slave transports directly to tropical colonies in the Americas – in the case of Portugal, especially Brazil.

In the Americas, considered by many a part of the " West ", the indigenous peoples of the Americas were seen by the first European explorers such as Columbus with amazement: " although the slaves were ' naked as the day they were born ,' they showed ' no more embarrassment than animals.

In western Europe and the Americas, abolitionism was a historical movement to end the African slave trade and set slaves free.

In general, slavery in Africa was not heritable – that is, the children of slaves were free – while in the Americas slaves ' children were legally enslaved at birth.

The treatment of slaves in Africa was more variable than in the Americas.

Benin grew increasingly rich during the 16th and 17th centuries on the slave trade with Europe ; slaves from enemy states of the interior were sold, and carried to the Americas in Dutch and Portuguese ships.

The Atlantic slave trade brought African slaves to British, Dutch, French, Portuguese and Spanish colonies in the Americas, including the Caribbean.

They traded goods and slaves, in the Geba River estuary and slaves captured in local African wars and raids were sold in Europe and then, from the 16th century onwards, in the Americas.

Beginning in the 15th century, Europeans captured or bought African slaves from West Africa and brought them to Europe and later to the Americas.

African American music includes blues and gospel, descendts of West African music brought to the Americas by slaves and mixed with Western European music.

In addition, within the context of the post-Napoleonic restorations and revolutions which engulfed the West both in Europe and the Americas, both the Carlistas as well as the Isabelino conservatives were opposed to the new Napoleonic constitutional system.

The reason the digits are more commonly known as " Arabic numerals " in Europe and the Americas is that they were introduced to Europe in the 10th century by Arabs of North Africa, who were then using the digits from Libya to Morocco.

In Quebec City, municipal officials built a 3 metre ( 10 ft ) high wall around the portion of the city where the Summit of the Americas was being held, which only residents, delegates to the summit, and certain accredited journalists were allowed to pass through.

The oldest-known domesticated beans in the Americas were found in Guitarrero Cave, an archaeological site in Peru, and dated to around the second millennium BCE.

Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of the British Isles from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa.

But when Africans were brought to the Americas, they were forced to give up their ethnic affiliations when they were combined with other groups from Africa.

Approximately 12 million Africans were shipped to the Americas during the Atlantic slave trade from 1492 to 1888.

The main destinations for Chilean exports were the Americas ( US $ 39 billion ), Asia ( US $ 27. 8 billion ) and Europe ( US $ 22. 2 billion ).

The name Angola starts as early as the beginning of slavery in Brazil, when Africans, taken to Luanda to be shipped to the Americas, were called in Brazil black people from Angola, regardless of their nationality.

Field artillery cannon in Europe and the Americas were initially made most often of bronze, though later forms were constructed of cast iron and eventually steel.

One member of the Permanent Commission for Human Rights commented on the Americas Watch report and its chief investigator Juan Mendez: " The Sandinistas are laying the groundwork for a totalitarian society here and yet all Mendez wanted to hear about were abuses by the contras.

The majority of the 400 copies of the first edition were sent to the New World, with the publisher hoping to get a better price in the Americas.

Most immigrants were illiterate or poorly educated peasants and coolies ( Chinese: 苦力, literally " hard labor "), who immigrated to developing countries in need of labor, such as the Americas, Australia, South Africa, Southeast Asia, Malaya and other places.

In 1704 like the rest of the tercios, the Spanish dragoons were reorganised into regiments by Felipe V. During the 18th century several additional regiments of dragoons were created in the Spanish Americas, some of them to function as a police force.

These statements, made by Andy Mattes, the senior vice president of EDS Americas, were quoted from a podcast of the town hall and broadcast in the news report.

After the Treaty of Paris in 1763, which deprived France of almost all her possessions in the Americas other than Guiana and a few islands, Louis XV sent thousands of settlers to Guiana who were lured there with stories of plentiful gold and easy fortunes to be made.

The term is used to refer to a number of related instruments that were developed and used across Europe beginning in the 12th century and, later, in the Americas.

This led to americium being located right below its twin lanthanide element europium ; it was thus by analogy named after another continent, America: " The name americium ( after the Americas ) and the symbol Am are suggested for the element on the basis of its position as the sixth member of the actinide rare-earth series, analogous to europium, Eu, of the lanthanide series.

The Spanish colonization of the Americas sparked a discussion about the right to enslave native Americans.

Interventionism found its formal articulation in the 1904 Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, proclaiming the right of the United States to intervene in the affairs of weak states in the Americas in order to stabilize them, a moment that underlined the emergent U. S. regional hegemony.

Many groups of colonists came to the Americas searching for the right to practice their religion without persecution.

CBS is not shown outside the Americas on a channel in its own right.

Towns and villages in the Americas with the right to a council ( villas and lugares in the Recompilación de las Leyes de Indias, 1680 ) had one alcalde.

Before the Spanish colonisation of the Americas by " right of conquest ", the northern region of South America that is contemporary Colombia had no culture akin to that of the ( Peruvian ) Incas, the ( Central American ) Mayas, or the ( Mexican ) Aztecs.

For him, if the " Indians " of the Americas would not permit free transit, the aggrieved parties had the right to defend themselves and to remain in land obtained in such a war of self-defense.

Interventionism found its formal articulation in the 1904 Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, proclaiming a right for the United States to intervene to stabilize weak states in the Americas, a moment that underlined the emergent U. S. regional hegemony.

Ordinary north-up maps in East Asia also often have the Americas on the right, showing the Pacific ocean whole while cutting through the Atlantic ocean.

She was the second female prime minister in the Caribbean after Lucinda da Costa of the Netherlands Antilles, and the first woman elected in her own right as head of government in the Americas.

Although Spain " refused to concede France's right to be in Louisiana " and warned King Louis XIV of France that he could be excommunicated for ignoring the 200-year-old papal edict giving the Americas to Spain, they took no further actions to stop France's encroachment or expand the Spanish presence.