French West Africa

representation of what the Atlantic slave trade was like during the eighteenth century right down to the business of the slave trade, the voyage itself, and the middle passage. Most ships that European slave traders used on their voyages to go into Africa were owned by merchants similar to the Billy brothers. The Diligent belonged to the Billy brothers…

during medieval and ancient times, considering how large a continent Africa is and the variety of different cultures within, it would obviously be no exception to this fact . However, there is a clear distinction between the slavery systems of Africa and Europe compared to the Atlantic Slave Trade . Both the Atlantic and African slave trades motivations were to seek power from the slave trading businesses. Slave trade in Africa is formed by the procurement of men in debt or captured during…

Nicolas de Largillière, a French artist known mainly for his portraits of the upper bourgeoisie, painted Portrait of a Woman in 1696 with oil on canvas. It can be found hanging in the European galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Due to a lack of evidence, the identity of the sitter has been widely debated. What can be gathered from records and documentation is that it appears to be either Madame Marie de Thorigny or Hélène de Thorigny; two women from the same wealthy family that…

language first evolved in the Middle Stone Age of sub-Saharan Africa. From this spring board, Africa boasts a tradition of higher education institutions that predates Western colonization. Example manuscripts of pre-colonial African oral literature are estimated to be over 300,000, mostly written in Arabic. The…

The early modern era helped shaped the world into what it is today. Empires rose and fell, and new advancements were made in intellectual and physical disciplines. Triangular trade however, provided the McGuffin that was needed to forge a new world order closer to the one of present day. Triangular trade did not only bring benefits; pitfalls were sandwiched in between the highpoints. Triangular trade in the early modern era brought political, economic, and cultural changes to the Old and New…

Daara J, a Senegalese rap group that includes N’Dongo D and Faada Freddy, has been vital in transforming Senegal, a third world country, into one of the most important and largest sites of hip hop music in Africa. They also served as pioneers in adopting this culture among West Africans, especially in Dakar, the capital of Senegal. This “hardcore” Senegalese duo was formed in 1992, originally with a third member, Lord Alaji Man, up until 2007 when the group officially changed its name to Daara J…

economic rivals, the French and Spanish, as well as to other colonies. The Europeans ships, the British ships obtained slaves from along the West Coast of Africa with the full and active co-operation of African kings and merchants. These African Kings and Merchants were occasional military campaigns organized by the Europeans and the British to capture slaves for the trade of goods and services. It is understood that the majority of kidnapped Africans weren't already slaves in Africa they were…

African Americans also known as Afro-Americans of Black Americans are an indigenous group of Americans with partial or total heritage from a black tribal groups of Africa. This term may also include those persons who descend from enslaved Africans (Michelle 2012). The first African arrived in 1526 via Santo Domingo which is the present-day South Carolina. These slaves revolved and sought refuge among the local Native Americans. The first recorded Africans in the British North America was in 1619…

Olaudah Equiano was born in 1745 in an area of Africa which is now Nigeria.At the age of eleven he was captured and brought into slavery. He was forced like many other African Americans during the 17th and 18th century. By reading about his biography in the textbook I learned how the Slave Trade affected the lives of many Africans who were enslaved like Equiano. I believe that without the Atlantic Slave Trade the United States would not be the great country it is today because the U.S. needed…

maintaining the colony. In German East Africa however, their were not strong native systems to use and so the government was forced to rule though Arab government agents. This has a direct impact…