The African slave trade‚ more specifically the Trans Atlantic slave trade as opposed to the East Indian‚ (although both served western ideals) robbed the continent of its most natural‚ essential and irreplaceable asset: its human resources. Those who were captured‚ shipped‚ and sold in the Americas were raped of their family‚ their language‚ their history‚ their culture‚ their ethnicity‚ the very names they carried and their pride for their homeland. Families were separated before even leaving
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The slave trade in its whole lasted a total of four centuries. This buying and selling of people as a product rather than the human beings that they were was not exclusive to African American males. The Transatlantic Slave Trade encompassed many other people such as‚ woman to be used as sex slaves and personal servants‚ children to be used in places such as sweat shops and mills for producing goods and others from all over smaller Western European countries. African Americans were usually the most
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As an American merchant‚ the trade with Europe is very critical to the U.S economy. We would sell crops and natural resources to our European customers‚ and we buy manufacturing goods from Europe. Things began to fall apart after the American Revolution‚ both American and European ship were being attacked by pirates when we traveled through the Mediterranean Sea. The barbaric pirates come from the Barbary states. The Barbary States are made of up four countries‚ the four countries are
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West African Slave Trade The West African Slave Trade was a global event that focused on West Africa. It was the sale and ownership of another human being that was put into slavery. It was a “forced Migration” that lasted 300 years. It was an event that forced 15‚ 000‚ 000 people into slavery for a lifetime. From 1551 – 1850 about 15‚000‚000 people were brought into the slave trade it is said that roughly 5‚000‚000 did not survive‚ and may have immediately died before making through the shock
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The slave trade was undeniably a crucial part of Atlantic history as it relates to the transformation of economies‚ provides an outlook on race thinking or the lack thereof‚ and functions as one of the earliest forms of Atlantic interaction. To understand the transatlantic slave trade‚ it is necessary to examine primary sources‚ ones written by those who were engaged in operating the business as well as individuals who were ‘victims’ of it. The first source‚ “A Journal of a Voyage Made in the Hannibal
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Many attribute the transatlantic slave trade to merely being an overtly inhumane business transaction of the past; therefore‚ many of the descriptions of this time are often generic and fail to give any true insight into the reality of these circumstances. Olaudah Equiano’s first hand account provides the reader with great insights into life of an African from capture‚ aboard the ship during the middle passage‚ and landing in Barbados in 1789. Equiano’s candid perspective as an individual who lived
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African Slave Trade and Slavery until the End The African population from the 1500’s to the 1800’s was treated inhumanly‚ enslaved and put to work on plantations‚ forced to grow many goods for trade. The Europeans chose the African people for a few reasons: There culture‚ build and being used to hard labor. The African Slave Trade was the largest migration of people in the world. Twelve million moved but only Ten million made it alive. There was a passage that the Europeans used during the
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Question: Examine the importance of the slave trade to the development of the plantation economies. The slave trade was vital to the development of plantation economies‚ which could only expand and survive in the West Indies with the use of slave labour. The slave trade brought enslaved Africans from Africa to colonies in the West Indies‚ which had begun to take part in the "sugar Revolution" starting in 1640. The plantation system which essentially is the organization of agriculture on a large
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Slavery is the practice for one to enslave another as their own property. Modern slave trade took place in between the mid 1500’s to the late 1800’s. Primarily the Europeans and many powerful African leaders were included within the slave trade. The prime reason the slave trade took place was because a larger labor force allowed for immense profits in Europe and the new world. As a result of the slave trade‚ slaves experienced harsh and inhumane social‚ emotional‚ and physical tortures. African
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American Slave Trade It is said that all humans are created equally. Everyone has the same basic rights as a human being no matter who they are‚ what they own‚ or where they are from. Any individuals cannot be accredited to deprive any others’ basic rights‚ which are given as humans. However‚ slavery of Africans has breached this truth since the 17th century‚ especially in the United States. When comparing Lawrence Hill’s novel The Book of Negroes to historical facts of the slavery trade in America
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