Arab American

Slaves were treated just like animals in the 1700s. Clayton Sutton explains that, “The slaves went through starvation, torture, filth, injustice, and so many other horrors that is it amazing any survived.” This shows how poorly slaves were treated. Slaves were transported from Africa to North America. Olaudah Equiano was one of these slaves. Equiano was kidnapped from West Africa and sold to British slave traders when he was eleven. Olaudah Equiano in his narrative The Interesting Narrative of…

How would you feel if you had a slavery and slave trade nowadays? It is really hard to imagine how rough life we would have if we had a slavery. Long time ago, there was a severe slavery and slave trade. In The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, Equiano was kidnaped and lived his life as a slave. While he was moving through the ship, he was suffering from horrible smells, flog, and the desire of escape. Also, he had a hard life after he became a slave. He could have lived in…

The entirety of this chapter follows the thoughts of the character Beloved, where she describes being trapped in crowded place surrounded by dead bodies, and suffering from thirst and hunger while she tries to reach the woman “whose face is hers.” The meaning of this passage is left open to many interpretations, although Beloved seems to be describing the experiences of slaves travelling across the Atlantic to be sold. During this journey, disease and starvation were rampant and many passengers…

The Sub-Saharan long distance commodity and slave trade as well as the syncretic interweaving of Islamic culture and traditional African culture accounts for Africa’s major influence as a superpower. Traders from all over the world were drawn to Africa’s riches in gold, ivory, and human beings. The fact that Africa was rich in resources posed influence in itself. Considering that a great number of the visiting traders were Muslims and they begin to intermarry and form relationships –…

Europeans started a thing called “Slave Trade” and they would purchase slaves and break the slaves away from their families and do “The Triangular Trade” and pack their ships with goods, cash crops, and slaves and would trade in the Caribbean or other American Colonies. The Europeans also started a thing called “Chattel Slavery.” In the Middle East, Africa, and Europe, slavery has had both similar and different things throughout history before the shift to chattel slavery. Slaves in Africa lost…

Ruben Seide African Slave This land is foreign to me; brought here against my will, living in Virginia, slavery and servitude is the norm in my life now. I do not have the same rights granted to the common man of this land. Born in the Bight of Biafra, I am a son of the Igbo people in Africa. Captured while protecting my family, and sold to British merchants; shackled and beaten, I was overpowered onto this vessel to America. Precious memories of home and my people are what I hold dear; I miss…

One question you might have wondered about is “what is the Atlantic slave trade?” Some information that I found in, ‘The Cruelest Commerce” is,“the total of Africans who came to the Americans as slaves, experts today believe that between 10-12 million made the voyage to the “New World” countless others died on the Africans coast waiting to be loaded onto ships they died crossing the Atlantic Ocean.” Regarding this, the slaves (African men/woman/children) were taken from their home and loved ones…

A. Attention Getter: I want you all to imagine going outside for a walk and you see that all females are wearing the same thing, a black robe-like dress that covered their whole bodies, and a scarf that covered their head. And now how did this feel? Well for me its pretty normal! Growing up in Saudi Arabia I was always surrounded by the same exact thing. B. Revealed Object and Background: So I know you are all probably wondering what this robe like dress looks like, so here is one of mine…

The geography of Africa has always been a mix of a desert, an inhospitable dense forest and a small area in between perfect for hospitable living space. As a result, this diversity of climates has effected parts of Africa socially, politically, economically, and has also effected the ability for Africa to build a military. Some parts of Africa developed more of less than others simply due to their conditions. Africa was socially impacted due to the geography of the continent. For example,…

decades, but the African Slave Trade of 1788, has made a faceplate for slavery. This slave trade was a big part of the Atlantic Triangle. However, it consisted of the Central America, Brazil, Europe, the Caribbean, Portugal, South America, and North American imports. Moreover, all of the imports had something to do with cheap labor, kidnapping, value, and the supply and demand. The means of goods being traded were slaves, sugar cane, cotton, tobacco, and rum. When African slaves were brought…