The transatlantic slave trade resulted in the worst oppression of millions of men, women and children who were held in bondage for many centuries. The enslavement of the African people was a cruel, brutal and a horrifying experience for a whole population of people who were forced from their African homeland to American to be demoralized and disrespect. This was the worst act of repression on the lives, integrity, and dignity of a population of African people in our history. The cruel and inhumane treatment changed a whole culture of people lives forever and resulted in a devastating experience as they were taken from the life they once knew. The Africans who were stripped of their birth rights, exploited, dehumanized and put in bondage in this transatlantic slave trade laid the foundation for free enterprise that generated great wealth for many Europeans and Americans.
The transatlantic slave trade was justified by the European believing that Africans were more suitable to the kind of labor and cruel environments that they had to live in because of how they lived in African. According to the article in “The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Forgotten Crime Against Humanity as Defined by International Law” by Patricia Muhammad ESQ She writes, “From the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, many European nations participated …show more content…
The movie gave us a good idea of what one free man endures when he was taken away from his family, life and culture. He was demoralized, disrespected and treated like a piece of parcel or commodity. Northup was one of millions of Africans who were stripped of their birth rights, exploited, dehumanized and put in bondage in this transatlantic slave trade laid the foundation for free enterprise that generated great wealth for many Europeans and
The transatlantic slave trade was justified by the European believing that Africans were more suitable to the kind of labor and cruel environments that they had to live in because of how they lived in African. According to the article in “The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Forgotten Crime Against Humanity as Defined by International Law” by Patricia Muhammad ESQ She writes, “From the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, many European nations participated …show more content…
The movie gave us a good idea of what one free man endures when he was taken away from his family, life and culture. He was demoralized, disrespected and treated like a piece of parcel or commodity. Northup was one of millions of Africans who were stripped of their birth rights, exploited, dehumanized and put in bondage in this transatlantic slave trade laid the foundation for free enterprise that generated great wealth for many Europeans and