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In 1485 the Portuguese Crown and Catholic Church began to kidnap Jewish children, forcibly convert the young conscripts, and ship them to São Tomé Island off the African equator to work the government sugar plantations. The collision of slavery, sugar agriculture, and discovery of The Americas... read more
First Sentence
The Street before me surged with activity, horse wagons, vendors' carts, dogs, sheep, stray chickens and other animals, and throngs of people hurrying with their bundles.
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