The Atlantic

The ‘Atlantic World’ is defined by James Carson, writer for the Oxford Bibliographies, as “an historical concept that frames the histories of Europe, Africa, and the Americas from the opening of the age of European exploration to the ending of the American wars for independence in the 1820s.” It had to do with the history and interactions among all the people and empires bordering the Atlantic Ocean. The concept of the ‘Atlantic World’ is interrelated to the economic networks and migratory…

placing themselves higher above their peers such as we did during the Atlantic Slave Trade. Now slavery has been around for centuries, with wars breaking out and soldiers being captured and put into slavery. Even people visiting Africa for slaves was common before people ventured to the new world, but what makes the Atlantic Slave trade any different? From 1440 to the late nineteenth century, African slaves were traded across the Atlantic. It may of raised the economy in North America, but…

Over the period of the Atlantic Slave Trade, from approximately 1526 to 1867, some 12.5 million slaves had been shipped from Africa, and 10.7 million had arrived in the Americas. The Atlantic Slave Trade was likely the most costly in human life of all of long-distance global migrations. The first Africans forced to work in the New World left from Europe at the beginning of the sixteenth century, not from Africa. The first slave voyage direct from Africa to the Americas probably sailed in 1526.…

complex and robust systems that allowed individual merchants the freedom to conduct business in whatever manner they chose, granting them the leeway they needed to operate in the new transnational economic system that was emerging throughout the Atlantic…

“The Atlantic Slave Trade” by Klein Herbert is a synthesis made to educate readers with extensive scholarly research from the past quarter century on the Atlantic Slave trade. This book was written to close the gap between popular understanding about the slave trade and scholarly knowledge. The Book systematically organized the Atlantic slave trade in eight chapters starting from “Slavery in Western Development” to “The End of the Slave Trade”. In the following review of Klein Herbert’s work…

The Atlantic slave Trade and the formation of African communities in the Caribbean and Brazil Most countries of the European continent had known slaves early in the formation of their societies. Some reports say that slavery in Europe existed since the late 1400’s, but in a small dimension. During that time, slaves could only be found in family houses, they used to work as house holders, cook for the family and do all the domestic services of the house. After a few years, the Europeans felt the…

Atlantic Slave Trade Introduction Upon the discovery of new lands all over the world, the European countries sought after ways to capitalize their newly established colonies and the indigenous people. The earliest Atlantic slave trades are dated to the 15th century, when the first major European world powers the Portuguese and Spanish empires that began with the transportation of slaves from Africa to America for cheaper and easier controllable labors. The slave trade culminated during…

The Atlantic World has a significant history to understand. Throughout the course of the time period of 1400 to 1900 the Atlantic Ocean was used in ways that undeniably formed its history. It was no more to be just seen as a huge waterway, however rather as a path that joined different gatherings of individuals. From Europe and Africa to America, the Ocean was secured with many countries whom were attempting to survive the Ice Age. The need to investigate and explore what else was out there for…

end of the seventeenth century, the North Atlantic trade of sugar was the number one commodity at the time. Hence the driving force for slave trade and expansion of the plantation system. Sugar was on the rise as one of the most popular commodities due to prominent demand. Thus supplying the wings to the start of the plantation economy. In the seventeenth century, the Portuguese made a discovery of sugar production which introduced the North Atlantic slave trade. A vast rise for the…

The Atlantic Slave Trade, 1770 – 1807 The Atlantic Slave Trade impacted Britain in a number of ways. In the following I will explain how Britain was affected by discussing, The Triangular Trade, the use of African Slaves, and the positive and negative effects of the Atlantic Slave Trade had on Britain. The Triangular Trade was a huge part of the Atlantic Slave Trade and Britain played a main part in it. The Triangular Trade consisted of three passages: The outward passage, the middle passage…