#foels

Rules are to tag 10 people that you’d like to know better!

-name: ebony

-birthday: september 14

-gender: female

-sexual orientation: straight

-romantic orientation: someone funny, is taller than me, intelligent, loves animals and travelling, and accept me even when im the worst

-height: 166cm (I'm still growing though!!)

-favorite colour: a light mint green

-current date & time: january 1, 5:45pm

average hours of sleep: about 11

-lucky number: don't have one

-last thing you googled: confessions book 3 its a book in this james patterson series i love

-first word coming to mind: magma

-favorite book: i love soo many books, but probably my two favourites of all time are the secret garden and the five people you meet in heaven

-favorite movies: 10 things i hate about you, pretty woman, the amazing spiderman, forrest gump, the shawshank redemption, the terminal the list could go on and on

oh and we're the millers that movie's hilarious

-fave tv shows: friends, 90210, new girl, simpsons, the vampire diaries, modern family, and gossip girl and the o.c but I've finished them

-fave drink: pineapple juice

-last movie you watched in theaters: hunger games

-dream holiday: don't do this to me maybe just all around europe, bora bora or thailand (which i may be going to in a few weeks)

-dream wedding: i would love to get married on a tropical beach, 

-dream job: cardiac or brain surgeon, or a really successful interior designer

And now it's just gone after dark, and we move to the other part of it, secret part, of your restless heart... 

The Triangle Trade

From the 1400's to the 1850's approximately 20 million African slaves were taken from their communities to the Americas to work on farming plantations.  Ships from the Americas would carry crops and raw materials to Europe and unload.  Then they would pack on guns, iron and trinkets from Europe to trade with Africans. 

African traders captured slaves from African communities in exchange for the European manufactured goods (guns/iron tools/trinkets).  They would load the slaves into boats to sail to the Americas.  Many died during this "Middle Passage" (trip to America) due to crowded, unsanitary conditions beneath the ship's decks.  Click the photo to see a dramatization of the slave trade- and be aware- the images are graphic. 

Once the ships got to the Americas they would unload the slaves, load up crops and raw materials and head to Europe to start the cycle over again. 

Money and greed drove this cycle for over 400 years.  The trade depopulated Africa and tore apart communities.  Many cultural traditions were lost due to the trade.