African Slave Trade Chapter Summary

Missionaries and explorers played a crucial role in not only in the discovery of Africa but also with the Atlantic slave trade. Based on the lessons and reading materials, we know that slavery and slave trades we not a new thing to the continent of Africa but Atlantic slave trade was more brutal because not only did it displace close if not more than 15 million Africans but disrupted the African system, economy, and government. With Chinua Achebe things fall apart, the book gives a great insight to the Igbo community in the southeast part of Nigeria. The book talked and showed the Igbo community prior to European contact and after the Europeans basically took over and controlled the village and all in all, the came with the pretense of Christianity. I am not trying to say that all missionary works were scams or that most of the …show more content…
The difference between Atlantic slave trade and African slave trade in mostly the nature of the trade. Portugal; had trading post and Africans traded with each other but once Atlantic slave trade became a big deal and the Europeans came into the picture, slaves being captured and sold were not only slaves from wars or dues but also captured free born and free will citizens and indigenes of African removed and displaced from their home and with Atlantic slave trade, the traders or the European made it sure that the slaves were displaced so even if they escaped, there would be no way for the slaves to retrace their way back to their roots, these captured slaves for the most times were sold and moved from plantation to plantations and masters till the finally reached the coast where the were placed on the ships. The negative impacts of slavery have been felt and are still being felt on the