French West Africa

Then they would take the slaves in cargo ships to their “new home” across the Atlantic Ocean to sell them in the West Indies and North America. They would take the slaves on the 'Middle Passage' across the Atlantic to sell in the West Indies and North America. Finally, they would load the ships up with rum and sugar and sail back to New England. This is all demonstrated in Rodney’s triangular trade model (Rodney, 1972). One…

Trans-Saharan slave trades were key players in the African Diaspora. Trans-Atlantic slave trade brought Western Africans across the Western hemisphere, while the Trans-Saharan slave trade moved Africans across the Sahara Desert to sub-Saharan locations within Africa. As a result, Africans were dispersed among locations where there was a need to grow settlements and maintain profitable agricultural practices. Shortly thereafter,…

sense of belief. A New Map of Africa from the Latest Authorities, was created by cartographer John Cary- a former apprentice of William Palmer- reinforces this idea. The map was created in 1805, at the height of European colonization and exploration of Africa. Most explorers were not familiar with Africa’s landscape while undertaking these long expeditions, and thus would rely upon maps and atlases such as Cary’s New Universal Atlas, which contained his A New Map of Africa. Cary uses the word…

for more success. They wanted more money, and started looking to other countries for more land, labor, and resources. Britain, for example, had become a strong economic force and their industries became very successful. They expanded to areas like Africa, Southeast Asia, and Western Asia in hopes for new markets, more labor, and resources like gold, diamond cotton, and rubber. Imperialism had originally began as a way for European colonies to flourish their economy throughout…

  The mighty Congo Empire, at Cote d’lvoire, Aka, the Ivory Coast of West Africa had the Burkina Faso warriors originally from the Bantu migration 600AD. They were skilled in horse riding and the use of the bow. Their earliest history starts with the Dagomba tribe neighboring the Boussansi, the Ninisi, the Gourounsi and the Kabisi their union brought about a great warrior kingdom called the Mossi. The greatest warriors of this Empire were the Wagadogo and the Yatenga. They used weapons such…

It is impossible to watch the nightly news on the television or to browse an online news website without encountering a depressing story about Africa. A pirate leader in Somalia is holding the crew of a Norwegian merchant ship hostage. A traveler has spread Ebola to a new country, opening up an additional thirty million people to infection. A coup attempt failed in an African nation that the majority of Americans can’t place on a map. A famine is sweeping through an east African nation, leaving…

or oppressing a section of the population. An example of this is the French revolution where the French people were given less power than the nobility and clergy members. Revolutionaries rose up against this corrupt system and instituted a system where the people were given more power, but eventually the people’s power was eventually concentrated to a select few leaders amongst the party. This process is reflected in the French Revolution where revolutionaries took France from the “tyrannical”…

Atlantic world linked peoples from Europe, Africa, and North and South America, in colonial societies, coercive labor systems, trade networks,…

indigenous economic activities before the arrival of the Europeans. Whiles the section colonialGold Coast also traces the reasons for European incursion in the Gold Coast and the economic reasons for the transportation of masses of people out of Africa to various parts of Europe and the New world. The abolishing of slave trade and its…

is when a group leader would sing a part of a song or phrase and the group would respond with the next part of the song. Call and response has clear roots in gospel music as well as other forms of music where its roots can be traced back to Africa. In Africa music also helped coordinate work. Africans would sing their spirituals while at work using methods like call and response over time and with the influence of other forms of music Gospel was born. “The gospel songs created by slaves used…