They were not slaves. They were indentured servants!
Your Curious Friend
Yes, this is how many Irish immigrants reached America duiring the famine, actually for a breif period until the invention of trans-Atlantic flight it was the only way for many people to get across the Atlantic ocean to America.
Most people migrated to North America from Europe via Asia via the connection across the Bering Strait up in Alaska. More recently, people migrated to North America by sailing across the Atlantic ocean.
Indentured servants
indentured servants
The simply left Sweden which at the time had open borders for people wishing to leave for America. They traveled across the Atlantic by ship.
The first European immigrants came on ships across the Atlantic. The Aboriginals of North America are thought to have come to America by an Ice Bridge that was naturally formed linking what is now Alaska to Siberian Russia.
The voyages of Columbus triggered a great transfer of people, plants, animals, and diseases back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean.
The voyages of Columbus triggered a great transfer of people, plants, animals, and diseases back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean.
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The French were the Europeans that came to America to engage in the fur trade. This was after several people tried to find a Northwest Passage across the United States.
The British/French built Concorde was the only scheduled supersonic transport (SST) to carry passengers across the Atlantic.
Go watch Titanic again. The US is between the pacific Ocean and the Atlantic. trams Atlantic ocean liners like White Star took people from Europe to the New World (now US/ Canada)