Slavery had started in 1619 when the Dutch had first brought the first group of captured Africans to America. West Africa was in fact part of a major trading network that dates back even before the Europeans. Trading routes had crossed from the Sahara further linking the north to the west. A lot like Africa , America was also shaped by slavery. To kill a Mockingbird  relates to slavery in America in-which throughout the book it portrays a crippled black man who is wrongly accused of raping a nineteen year old white girl. This is a realistic take on how discrimination and how blacks can be wrongly accused and mistrusted at that time is shown by this tale.