Jeru The Damaja - History 101 lyrics

| !!! PLEASE EDIT ME!!! | ------------------------- 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 a** 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 sh** 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 n***as 1492 Columbus sails the ocean blue (yeah all right, once again................) After months and months of sea, d**h 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 a** 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 k**ed 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 k**s the Incas and sh** 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