Sweet Nexus

As I was reading Source Ten about how Mahommah Gard Bauquaqua was being sold as a slave I couldn’t help but think about how similar it is to human sex trafficking. Bauquaqua described his path so well that I could image girls and boys being sold for sex and slavery. I think the information that had the greatest impact while I was reading the story was the fact that his own friends and villagers betrayed him. It’s hard to comprehend how the people you love and care about can betray you like that. As I was reading these stories I couldn’t help but think about how the authors seem to justify slavery. They don’t seem to think that slavery was morally wrong, The Europeans cared more about whether or not sugar should be taxed then the people that were beaten to death if they didn’t work fast enough. It’s hard to think about how common sugar has such a bad history to it.