The Lingering Effects of Slavery
During the 16th century, there occurred a vast emergence of slave owners. People were confined to the venomous belief of slavery being a natural, God-sent form of labor. They believed that it was fair for African peoples (mostly African Americans) to be forced into horrific extents of labor without pay. The slaves were given no rights or freedom; they were dehumanized. They were treated as commodities, meaning they were bought and sold as property. The central or primal reasoning behind the emergence and progression of slavery was due to economic development in Europe and North America (as well as other regions of the world). Slave owners used slaves as contributing aid to build an extensively ample export-“producing” …show more content…
The slave trade was one of the most horrific events that took place in human history. People from mainly West Africa were exploited from their lands and were forced to work for slaveholders in most of the Americas and different parts of Europe. The slaves were used to exploit raw materials like sugar and cotton, which were then manufactured in various European regions. The Atlantic slave trade occurred in a cycle of stages. First, the metropolis colonized the African regions. This stage was one of the most damaging stages to the state of Africa and its’ people; it changed and disrupted people’s lives causing a cycle of uneven development. The metropolis intentionally divided people from one …show more content…
The third stage is simply an ongoing cycle of abuse, creating more instability in satellite regions. This stage is defined by what Gunder Frank; a dependency model theorist, called the “Triangle of Trade”. During the Triangle of Trade, this route involved the carrying of slaves, cash crops and manufactured goods between Europe, West Africa, Caribbean or American colonies and back again to European colonial powers (Frank, 1996). They were also used as human or slave labor to produce raw materials. The raw materials were then shipped to industrial centers in Europe, where they were turned into manufactured goods. These manufactured goods were then sold in Africa to purchase more Africans who were then enslaved. Due to this circuit, the prices of raw materials decreased, which caused the prices of manufactured goods to increase. This process is known as the import/export dilemma. As this continued to occur, it helped put in place a perpetual cycle of uneven development (Allain, 2015, pg. 39). This is how the many regions of the global South became underdeveloped. Some get richer while others become disposed of their lives, homes, wealth, resources and “human
During the 16th century, there occurred a vast emergence of slave owners. People were confined to the venomous belief of slavery being a natural, God-sent form of labor. They believed that it was fair for African peoples (mostly African Americans) to be forced into horrific extents of labor without pay. The slaves were given no rights or freedom; they were dehumanized. They were treated as commodities, meaning they were bought and sold as property. The central or primal reasoning behind the emergence and progression of slavery was due to economic development in Europe and North America (as well as other regions of the world). Slave owners used slaves as contributing aid to build an extensively ample export-“producing” …show more content…
The slave trade was one of the most horrific events that took place in human history. People from mainly West Africa were exploited from their lands and were forced to work for slaveholders in most of the Americas and different parts of Europe. The slaves were used to exploit raw materials like sugar and cotton, which were then manufactured in various European regions. The Atlantic slave trade occurred in a cycle of stages. First, the metropolis colonized the African regions. This stage was one of the most damaging stages to the state of Africa and its’ people; it changed and disrupted people’s lives causing a cycle of uneven development. The metropolis intentionally divided people from one …show more content…
The third stage is simply an ongoing cycle of abuse, creating more instability in satellite regions. This stage is defined by what Gunder Frank; a dependency model theorist, called the “Triangle of Trade”. During the Triangle of Trade, this route involved the carrying of slaves, cash crops and manufactured goods between Europe, West Africa, Caribbean or American colonies and back again to European colonial powers (Frank, 1996). They were also used as human or slave labor to produce raw materials. The raw materials were then shipped to industrial centers in Europe, where they were turned into manufactured goods. These manufactured goods were then sold in Africa to purchase more Africans who were then enslaved. Due to this circuit, the prices of raw materials decreased, which caused the prices of manufactured goods to increase. This process is known as the import/export dilemma. As this continued to occur, it helped put in place a perpetual cycle of uneven development (Allain, 2015, pg. 39). This is how the many regions of the global South became underdeveloped. Some get richer while others become disposed of their lives, homes, wealth, resources and “human