According to the Atlantic Slave Trade video, there have been centuries of contact between Europe and Africa via the Mediterranean, but the slave trade didn’t begin until the late 1400s with the Portuguese colonies in west Africa and Spanish settlement of the Americas. Due to the labor intensive upkeep with the sugar cane, tobacco and cotton plantation there was a surge in the need for slaves who can keep up with it. To meet the massive demands for the labor, the Europeans looked to Africa, thus…
became targeted by other civilizations. Resulting in the trans-Atlantic slave trade that extracted over millions of Africans from their home. Once, slavery had ended hundreds of years later, African origin had become a faint memory. The trans-Atlantic Slave trade caused distortion of African origin among African-Americans, because the family structure became dismantled, lack…
Throughout this book I was mainly intrigued by Chapter 12 for several reasons. I have always been curious about slave life and this chapter really made me think about our past generations. The fact that people in our country actually lived that way, as if they were not people at all, seems all too unreal but it is unfortunately a part of our history. We are past the days of slavery within our county, but still to this day we have problems with equality, a lot of that being minorities. Daily I…
African slaves werebeinmg bought and sold everyday in the Atlantic world. There were many causes of the incfrease of African slave trade, one of them being the need for cheap work. When the Europeans were first moving to the new world they needed people to work on their plantations and tabbacco farms. Their first option was the native americans, bur too many of them were dieing of european diseases, warfare, and brutality for a steady work force. So, the freshly settled europeans turned toward…
becoming enslaved. The idea of using Africans as slaves initially came from the Kingdom of Portugal which of whom worked the indigenous peoples of their islands to death and turned to West Africa to replace them. This lead to the rise of the Atlantic Slave Trade. The Atlantic Slave Trade was an essential major economic boon for the colonies allowing plantations in the south to buy laborers to produce their cash crops, while merchants in the north bought slaves from the Kingdom of Portugal or…
To cause the question otherwise, why slavery, and why were the slaves carried across the Atlantic completely African? The short answer to the primary of those 2 queries is that European growth to the Americas was to principally tropical and semi-tropical areas. many merchandise that were either unknown to Europeans…
The trans-Atlantic slave trade was a very important and vital part in the history of the world. This trade route was so significant that it lasted for three centuries, beginning in 1550 AD and going until 1850 AD. The slave trade was the exchange of African slaves for certain products such as tobacco, gold, and many other different objects that were crucial in the countries that were affiliated. This slave trade changed certain things about the world in many ways, and everyone was greatly…
African slave trade was beginning to become very dominate in the period of the Atlantic world and the effects of it have changed the world dramatically. During the time of the 1500’s many people were beginning to acquire the need of slaves, and European colonists seemed to be the ones who started it all. With the need of cheap and profitable labor for areas such as sugar plantations or tobacco farms Europeans need many people to take care of the land and owning many slaves was there solution. …
My attitudes toward the slave trade and the treatment of slaves during the Middle Passage and on the plantation was that it was a inconceivable process of the transporting and selling of African human beings as slaves. African Americans were treated horribly during the slave trade, the Middle Passage, and on their masters plantations. The Middle Passage was a long three to six month sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to West Indies. During this long journey Africans were…
the ancient spice trade of the Indian Ocean and were interested in silver. Page 605 Guided Reading Question: Connection…