The Impact Of Slavery On Colombia

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Slavery has been a major institution of forced labour throughout history, colonial societies were known for using slavery intensively across the Americas. With slavery remaining prevalent in most countries even after gaining independence from the Europeans. Slavery has had a lasting impact of on Colombia’s development as a nation. When it was a former colony, gold mining was a major source of demand for slave labour. When the Spanish established New Granada, the active resistance from the native communities was a huge obstacle for exploitation, and posed a major challenge to the Spaniards wishing to exploitation Colombia’s gold mines. The difficulty in controlling the natives, combined with their deaths due to genocide, disease, and overwork,