African Slave Trade Research Paper

Slavery is caused by the same thing that caused all the exploration of the new world, a way to make more wealth. The slave trade became very common through a travel route under the name of the Triangular Trade route, which is the route that European merchants would take when buying and selling slaves. A European merchant would come down to Africa, purchase many slaves and take them to the new world. When they got to the new world, they would sell them for goods and other things. They would then take these goods back to Europe to sell for a profit, and keep on continuing this cycle until they decided to stop. About eleven million african slaves were imported into the new world alone. Many slaves were taken from Africa but died on the “Middle Passage” on the way to the new world, as the slaves were packed into the ships with very little food or water. Due to how the slaves were treated the merchants could transport them by a larger number and at a lower cost per person allowing the merchants to make huge amounts of money off of this trade. Merchants had a few good choices on who would work the best as …show more content…
Over time the African people in the new world started to create their own culture or preserving their culture from Africa and passing it on to their children on plantations, or wherever they were enslaved. This culture united their people overtime and got them their freedom, but not for a very long time. Revolts were somewhat common for slave owners. Revolts could come in all different ways, such as anything from not working the plantation or to killing a slave owner and leaving. The slave songs would represent their want for freedom, or even directions to freedom. Although their people went through much suffering, they made America and the new world into an economic powerhouse, with how many raw materials were created there and sent back to Europe. Due to them being slaves, it kept the new world alive and