History 101

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 Plans are made destined to change the course of history
 In 1441 two Portuguese captains pick up twelve Africans
 Brought them to Cabo Branco Portugal the slaves,
 This is the beginning of the slave trade
 There were so successful that just four years after,
 A tax-collector from Lagos set up trade with Africa
 This was in number 1444,
 Don't go nowhere cause there's a whole lot more
 In 1452 the first time sugar was planted on an isle in Portugal
 That's the year Pope Nicholas V proclaims
 That if you're not a Christian, your ass can be put in chains
 For years the Portuguese monopolized the slave game
 there were so large they set up shop in Seville Spain
 Now in 1476 despite papal opposition the Spanish got down with this shit
 It was a captain named called Carlos de Valera
 He brought back 400 men from Africa
 1481 Diogo de Azambuja
 Builds a castle at Elmina, that's modern day Ghana
 Not only was it one of the days busiest ports
 It was also one of the slavery's most notorious forts
 1483 the discovery of the Congo river,
 A goldmine if your goal was enslaving niggas
 1492 Columbus sails the ocean blue
 (yeah all right, once again...)
 After months and months of sea, death and all types of drama
 Chris stands on San Salvador, modern day Bahamas
 1493 on Columbus' second voyage
 He starts the transatlantic trade enslavin' the Taino village
 He brought them from Hispaniola, that's the D.R. to Spain
 It gets even more insane
 1499 Vespucci and Hojeda take natives from South America this time
 When Columbus did it there were legal issues in the past
 This time he had no problems selling their native ass
 1500 it starts to get real ill,
 Pedro Cabral sets foot on Brazil
 1502 a guy named Juan Córdoba
 It's the first merchant of record to send Africans over
 He was only allowed one by Spanish authorities
 But other dirty merchants sent two or three
 1509 Columbus son Diego Colón governor of the empire at that time
 Said the native slaves were lazy and they worked too slow
 1510 fifty black slaves are shipped to Santo Domingo
 1513 Ponce de Leon the first European to touch American soil
 He landed on the coast, modern day Florida as it's known to most
 1516 on a ship a huge native slave rebellion
 They killed the crew and sailed back home 1519 here comes Magellan
 1521 Cortés slaughtered the Aztecs,
 1522 two slaves in Espanola break their masters necks
 1526 the Germans put slaves on ships,
 1532 the Pizarro kills the Incas and shit
 1532 the English get into the mix,
 John Hawkins brought back blacks, potatoes and tabacco from his trips
 1579 the united provinces is formed
 and the trading machine of the Dutch is born
 Now I can dope on and on and on and on,
 but for practical reasons it'll take to long
 To all my brothers claiming that they're Hispanic and Latino
 You're African, Aztecs, Indian and Taino
 Now that I showed you how this nations gained their wealth
 I hope I keep your interest so check it out for yourself
 

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