Marcus Rediker The Slave Analysis

"little could the Gola warriors have known that a conflict over hunting rights could land them five thousand miles away, in Charleston, South Caroline. Now they had a different war to fight" (Rediker, 74). The passage from the book The Slave Ship written by Marcus Rediker, documents what occurred to slaves before they were transported on ships. The passage explains how slaves were captured from their communities in Africa and how they arrived on the coast to be forced on a ship and sent to their new environments. The passage also describes the dominance and resistance that occurred in the Atlantic slave trade and it effects. Documents from thousands of years have taught present generations that slavery has always existed. However, "the number of slaves held and the importance of slavery as an institution in African societies expanded with the Atlantic slave trade" (Rediker, 74). slavery was no longer about having free labor and absolute control over someone. Slavery started to become how to make the biggest profit. Greed of money and power justified individual actions for capturing people and to trade them for materials or manufacture goods. If money and power were the fuel to slavery, how did it start? "Most of the enslaved were captured in wars of conquest, after a …show more content…
Inequality doesn 't exist without dominance and resistance. Learning about the Atlantic Slave Trade has inspired me to learn more about history so future generations don 't make the same mistakes. Individuals should take away from past experiences and learn the greed of power only causes destruction, not only of individuals but a destruction of communities and lifestyles. Learning more about dominance and resistance inspires me to find a justice system to balance fairness for everyone so individuals don 't experience too much power. Once an individual experience too much power they feel invincible and their actions cause