The Pros And Cons Of The Slave Captain

In order for salves to get to the new world a slave ship captain would have to take a huge risk in transporting them across the Atlantic Ocean. There were a lot of thing that could go wrong on the trip from Africa to the new world. There many different types of disease that the captain and crew were exposed to, also there was a chance that they could run into bad weather crossing the ocean, and there was a chance that there cargo could die. Most of the slaves came from the coast of Africa. Most of the Captains of the slave ships were Englishmen looking to become rich and well known. The captains that become well known were the ones willing to task the biggest risks to get slaves to the new world. Majority of the slaves that were brought to the new world were from the coast of Africa. Slave captains did not capture there now slaves to transport. The Europeans “built some sixty forts that served as trading post” (PBS). These forts would kidnap people from thousands of miles away and march them to the fort were they were held to trade to the slave captains. The captains would bring “rum, cloth, guns, and other goods to these posts and traded them for human cargo” (PBS). Slave Captains had to bring good with …show more content…
They had to be will to risk getting diseases, crew revolting against him, and the risk of being out on the open ocean. The captains had to rule the ship with an iron fist to make sure to keep everyone in line. These captains also had to be determined that they were going to reach there destination while as many slave a possible. So that they could make as much money as possible. Slave captains were quite successful because if you look at our history book that were thousands of Africa slaves that arrived mostly in the southern part on the new world. These captain that were willing to take the risks and were determine made it big because there was a lot of money in the slave