The Slave Trade By Jennyinez Summary

Jenny Martinez’s article on the Slave Trade Origins of Human Rights and International Human Rights Law was incredibly hard to read not for it being too dense nor overtly sophisticated but the material itself and topic at hand is one that deserves the utmost respect and sensitivity as it is undoubtedly the gravest violation of human rights to have ever occurred in the history of mankind, in my opinion and the subject itself took some time to contextualize and even rationalize. The descriptions of the horrid conditions and the mere fact that children were born on the ships, captured and sold as slaves is something that seems so far removed from todays standard of living and human achievement, that it requires deep contemplation of the extent of the human capacity of …show more content…
Furthermore, I found it quite interesting how the suppression of the slave trade was lead by the British, although from the material covered in the article, one got the sense that even though great efforts were taken to stop the trade of human life, the leniency afforded to slavers and those who violated individual human sovereignty, people who outright denied dignity and freedom to other human beings is beyond deplorable. Moreover, what I also found interesting was that most of the laws and enforcement of seizures of slave ships and the banning of slavery itself happened in the early-to-mid 19th century. This is the era when more than 90%% of Latin America had sought independence from Spain and Portugal; whose entire economy at that point was so heavily invested in their colonies that they were essentially caught in a vicious circle and deathly entanglement and dependency with