Whether captured by European or African slave traders, or enslaved as prisoners during war, the Africans' fate was the sameâto be shackled, confined in a ship, and transported across the ocean and sold into a life of forced labor. Here we read from two perspectives, the enslaved and the enslaver.
This Golden Coast is a 30-mile stretch of shoreline with uninterrupted golden sands. More interesting to the would-be retiree is that Uruguayâs Costa de Oro also boasts some of the countryâs best beach towns for full-time retirement living. These shady, livable towns are affordable, safe, friendly, and welcoming.ere are a few of the benefits Uruguay, and especially its Costa de Oro, has to offer retirees: Safety and stability. At different times in its history, Uruguay has been part of Spain, Portugal, and Brazil.
Montevideo, in the department of the same name, is the country's largest city. Uruguay's population by 1999 was 3.2 million. Eighty-six percent of the population was of white European descent, 6 percent was black, and 8 percent was mestizo , an ethnic mixture of white and indigenous descent.