Caribbean

Africa in the World, part four, starts with the chapter “Crazy Soup”, about the defeat of the Triple Alliance of American groups by Cortes. Juan Garrido, “an African turned Europea turned America”, became an agent of the Columbian exchange when he planted three kernels of bread wheat on American ground. The freedom that Garrido had wasn’t experienced by all Africans, with a majority of slaves doing back-breaking work to produce Portugal’s best cash crop, sugar. This country soon grew into an…

When looking at the African dispora from the 1400s until the 1800s, it can be said that the trading of black slaves from Africa to European countries and else where symbolizes a tragic and dramatic encounter of economy, culture, humanity, geography and world history. Due to the large number of the black slaves transferred from their homeland to various corners of the world, the slave trade even managed to constitute one of the first forms of globalization. However, the black people were brutally…

Throughout the course of human history, countless displays of inequality have taken place, ranging from mild forms to those of major brutality. Among these injustices was the transatlantic slave trade, in which people were cruelly ripped apart from their families and forced into lives of grueling, unpaid servitude. While some slaves were never freed, others lived to tell about the horrors they experienced. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African,…

Imagine that your standing in a gigantic football stadium or an enormous baseball field that holds 100,000 people. Then picture 100 of those stadiums and think about how many people that would be. All of those and more people became slaves to the Europeans. This all happened when the Europeans colonized Africa. To begin, there are many reasons that the Europeans colonized Africa. Colonization is where people trade or claim pieces of land. For example, the Europeans wanted more materials such…

Indentured workers were always available, and indenture practice never halted, the practice only diminished when slavery became available and more profitable to business. Indenture work was a solution established to bring labors to British colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although initially all the servants came from England, throughout the colonial period migrants from other countries joined the flow of servants to British America; Scottish, Irish, and German immigrants…

Sickle cell disease or sickle cell anemia is basically a disease that is hereditary blood disorder that is characterized through red blood cells. It affects the hemoglobin that has to put oxygen into the red blood cells. Since it affects that it is formed into a sickle shape and can cause massive amounts of damage if not cured. A young High school Student describes his experience with having sickle cell anemia and says that he could not imagine life without pain all the time. When Noah was 15…

Alexander Hamilton was born in the West Indies on the island Nevis. During his lifetime, Hamilton said he was born in 1757, but recently found legal records suggest that the year of his birth was actually 1755. 1755 has been used has his actual birth year for now a few decades. Hamilton may have misconstrued his birth year in order to be a more favorable college applicant to King’s College, now called Columbia College. Hamilton was born to James Hamilton, a businessman from Scotland, and Rachel…

The Middle Passage was the voyage from Africa to the West Indies. Also, 6 million Africans were transported out of Africa. About 2 million Africans died as a result of the Middle Passage and approximately 15% of them died on the voyages. Therefore, the Middle Passage was a very dangerous and difficult voyage considering how the slaves were treated and the ship’s conditions. An example of how the Middle Passage was a dangerous and difficult voyage was how the slaves were treated. The slaves…

The conflict over slavery has been going on for thousands of years. Throughout time, many powerful civilizations used slavery to build their vast empire including the Egyptian Empire, the Roman Empire, and the Akkadian Empire . The Atlantic Slave Trade was a rough time for any African living in Africa, during the 1650s to the 1860s because about fifteen million Africans became forcibly shipped and boarded to the “New World” during this time period. The Atlantic Slave Trade was one of the largest…

Slavery has always been a huge issue. The reason that slavery still exists is because there is a profit that is made out of it. Previously, when slaves were apprehended and then exchanged between people, they had a significant market value. They were traded like they were some sort of business deal. Although their treatment by people considered to be above them was often cruel and appalling, the reality of the situation was that it made sense, economically. It made sense because if a slave was…