At the beginning of the sixteenth century the first Africans were forced to leave Europe to work in the New World. The first voyage which is known as The Middle Passage was sailed in 1526 with approximately 12.5 million slaves only 10.7 million arriving to America. Having slaves was profitable to their owners because they would trade them for food, goods, cotton or even tobacco.
There are three categories of indentured servants: the first are the free-willers/redemptioners who want to go to America but lack money, next is those who are forced into servitude to escape poverty or their religious persecution, and at last are the convicts. The total of slaves carried off from Africa reached 30 thousand per year in 1690 and 85 thousand per year a century later. Many slaves were distributed into the Caribbean, South America, British North America, and Brazil yet by the 1800s the United States had 25% of blacks in the New World. In America they would keep the reproduction of children in order to have more slaves, their children were considered slaves once born. …show more content…
The Middle Passage was dangerous and miserable for slaves, being packed together, kept naked, chained, and also when needed to use the restroom their dispenses would say there. All this made it impossible for many Africans to survive and about 12% of those embarked died. Diarrhea, respiratory diseases, worms, abdominal swelling, and the lack of food also played role on their death not only for the adult slaves but also for their infants. After Congress outlawed the African slave trade in 1808 a new trade flourished known as “Domestic Slave Trade.” The domestic slave trade distributed the African American throughout the south having a better volume than the Atlantic slave trade to North
There are three categories of indentured servants: the first are the free-willers/redemptioners who want to go to America but lack money, next is those who are forced into servitude to escape poverty or their religious persecution, and at last are the convicts. The total of slaves carried off from Africa reached 30 thousand per year in 1690 and 85 thousand per year a century later. Many slaves were distributed into the Caribbean, South America, British North America, and Brazil yet by the 1800s the United States had 25% of blacks in the New World. In America they would keep the reproduction of children in order to have more slaves, their children were considered slaves once born. …show more content…
The Middle Passage was dangerous and miserable for slaves, being packed together, kept naked, chained, and also when needed to use the restroom their dispenses would say there. All this made it impossible for many Africans to survive and about 12% of those embarked died. Diarrhea, respiratory diseases, worms, abdominal swelling, and the lack of food also played role on their death not only for the adult slaves but also for their infants. After Congress outlawed the African slave trade in 1808 a new trade flourished known as “Domestic Slave Trade.” The domestic slave trade distributed the African American throughout the south having a better volume than the Atlantic slave trade to North