The BYCX offers visitors a ride into Yacolt's Old Logging Past. This ride will take you through some of our beautiful country in South West Washington and North Clark County. The clickity clack of the rails and the ever changing scenery soon outweigh the experience of the short rush of a jet leaving the ground with monotonous non-detailed scenery.
how Africans could have sold other Africans into slavery. The answer is that [African] slaveholders didn't think of themselves or their slaves as 'Africans.' Instead they thought of themselves as Edo or Songhai or members of another group. They thought of their slaves as foreigners or inferiors.
Early European Contact and the Slave Trade. When the first Europeans arrived in the late fifteenth century, many inhabitants of the Gold Coast area were striving to consolidate their newly acquired territories and to settle into a secure and permanent environment.uring the heyday of early European competition, slavery was an accepted social institution, and the slave trade overshadowed all other commercial activities on the West African coast. To be sure, slavery and slave trading were already firmly entrenched in many African societies before their contact with Europe.