Transatlantic Slave Slavery

The transatlantic slave trade is responsible for the traumatic migration of millions of African to the Western Hemisphere from the mid-15th – 19th century. The trafficking of African is sometime referred to, by the Swahili word Maaf. It was the involvement of Africans from other African kingdoms come procuring captives for trade to the European possible. It is inaccurate to think that all captured Africans became slaves due to passive resistance. African fought their capturers even at the cost of their own life. None the less the method of reducing a human beings from their natural state in nature, by revoking their independence and creating a state of dependency and by dehumanizing seasoned slaves for labor. The journey from the African …show more content…
They were seen as property familial establishment depended on different factors such as the need and desires of the slave owner. Enslaved people were not allowed to legally marry in colonies of American states, even after the emancipation of slaves. They were not legal persons who could enter into contracts and married is and was a legal contract. Their ability to establish family units was also affected by the father or mother been owned by different owners. If these men and women had the opportunity to establish such relationships they were called “abroad marriages.” Some slave escaped the constraint slavery by running away and forming communities in secrete or hard the reach areas of their country. Runaway slaves can be found in a number of English and Spanish speaking colonies. In Dominican Republic they are knew as Cimarrón—The word itself based on an Arawakan (Taino) Indian root. The Cimarrón were referred to as domestic cattle that took to the hills of Hispaniola. Maroons which is derived from the Spanish word Cimarrón, similarly escaped, and can be found in English speaking Caribbean country such as Jamaica. These communities were first to live as free individuals and establish families and kinship