The Atlantic Slave Trade took place across the Atlantic Ocean from the 16th century through the 19th century.
Many different historians have written about the Slave Trade in Africa and the effects that this slave trade has brought in their country in different aspects of Africans social life, how it affected their economy and political life. Africa’s development was stopped from the Atlantic trade. As historian John Thornton remarked, Europian bought enslaves captured in endemic warfare between African states. Also some Africans had made their business and a way to make money by capturing their own people and selling them like slaves. During the years Africans failed to understand that their country didn’t benefited from the slave trade but the …show more content…
This slave trade affected the agriculture and mining because there was no more man power in the country and Africa started to depend in European goods. (3)
Africa’s enemy wasn’t only Europian but even Africans people wanted to make profit from the slave trade so they started to capture and sell slave to make big profits from the trade. So by the 18th century Africa’s main export business was slaves. (4) As Dr. William Harvey mentiones in his article “Riches & Misery: The Consequences Of The Atlantic Slave Trade” African economy did benefit from the Atlantic trade. The period between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries was a time of economic stagnation for Africa, which fell further and further behind the economic progress of Europe as the years passed by. I I join Dr. Harvey opinion that the Atlantic trade did seriously retarde Africa's economic development.
Many different historians have written about the Slave Trade in Africa and the effects that this slave trade has brought in their country in different aspects of Africans social life, how it affected their economy and political life. Africa’s development was stopped from the Atlantic trade. As historian John Thornton remarked, Europian bought enslaves captured in endemic warfare between African states. Also some Africans had made their business and a way to make money by capturing their own people and selling them like slaves. During the years Africans failed to understand that their country didn’t benefited from the slave trade but the …show more content…
This slave trade affected the agriculture and mining because there was no more man power in the country and Africa started to depend in European goods. (3)
Africa’s enemy wasn’t only Europian but even Africans people wanted to make profit from the slave trade so they started to capture and sell slave to make big profits from the trade. So by the 18th century Africa’s main export business was slaves. (4) As Dr. William Harvey mentiones in his article “Riches & Misery: The Consequences Of The Atlantic Slave Trade” African economy did benefit from the Atlantic trade. The period between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries was a time of economic stagnation for Africa, which fell further and further behind the economic progress of Europe as the years passed by. I I join Dr. Harvey opinion that the Atlantic trade did seriously retarde Africa's economic development.