Essay A: Transatlantic Slave Trade
The trade lasted for four centuries, between 15th and 19th centuries, across the Atlantic Ocean. This kind of trade remains to be unique with the concept of slave history because of the duration it took (about four centuries), the victims involved and the development of legitimization. The majority of people who were enslaved and transported from one continent to another during this period were West Africans especially from the western and central parts of Africa. The British were involved in Transatlantic slave trade. The Europeans countries captured Africans and transported them across the Atlantic Ocean. Portugal is known to be the first European nation to engage in the slave trade.
Africans were fetched away from their homes and deported into the Americas. The slave markets reduced them to products with prices. They were sold to work in mines and farm plantations. The sweat and blood of Africans served as the origin to the incredible wealth realized in most parts of Europe and South and North America. The exploitation of the new lands …show more content…
Africans began to realize their value. This was the beginning to the end of the slave trade. The slaves resisted their sale through different means such as running away. The abolition of slave trade was brought by millions of Africa who without giving up, continued creating resistance to enslavement and rebelled against slavery in order to be free. The end of slave trade ended in Europe simply because of the changes in their economic requirement. This explains why blacks alone were not able to end slave trade. Resisting to engage and fully support the activities of slaves’ owners and the traders, marked the beginning of freedom from slavery (Wright, 1990). With knowledge that they were classified as commodities, African-American slaves believed that their bodies were meant for something bigger than misuse that was flagged in by the
The trade lasted for four centuries, between 15th and 19th centuries, across the Atlantic Ocean. This kind of trade remains to be unique with the concept of slave history because of the duration it took (about four centuries), the victims involved and the development of legitimization. The majority of people who were enslaved and transported from one continent to another during this period were West Africans especially from the western and central parts of Africa. The British were involved in Transatlantic slave trade. The Europeans countries captured Africans and transported them across the Atlantic Ocean. Portugal is known to be the first European nation to engage in the slave trade.
Africans were fetched away from their homes and deported into the Americas. The slave markets reduced them to products with prices. They were sold to work in mines and farm plantations. The sweat and blood of Africans served as the origin to the incredible wealth realized in most parts of Europe and South and North America. The exploitation of the new lands …show more content…
Africans began to realize their value. This was the beginning to the end of the slave trade. The slaves resisted their sale through different means such as running away. The abolition of slave trade was brought by millions of Africa who without giving up, continued creating resistance to enslavement and rebelled against slavery in order to be free. The end of slave trade ended in Europe simply because of the changes in their economic requirement. This explains why blacks alone were not able to end slave trade. Resisting to engage and fully support the activities of slaves’ owners and the traders, marked the beginning of freedom from slavery (Wright, 1990). With knowledge that they were classified as commodities, African-American slaves believed that their bodies were meant for something bigger than misuse that was flagged in by the