Trade

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 took them from Africa…

a civilization. However, as the world began to populate and integrate, Africans 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…

Document 10; OLAUDAH EQUIANO: The African Slave Trade The document, The African Slave Trade, was taken from the book, The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, written by Olaudah Equiano himself in 1789. Equiano’s book is composed of more than six thousand eyewitness accounts of the slave trade, his being one of the most important. Equiano was an Ibo prince who was kidnapped into slavery at just eleven years of age. Before he was able to purchase his freedom in 1766 he was…

Today, drugs are one of the most negatively profiled items in the world. One of the biggest exporters in the world is Colombia. Their influence in the drug trade reaches all the way back to the 1980's when brutal cartels were dominant. Today, Colombia's trade still exists and is as strong as ever. Drug trafficking has an influence on Colombia and the world because of the role it plays in destroying the environment, causing civil unrest, and affecting the economy. While many drugs are produced…

The Transatlantic Slave Trade or the Atlantic Slave Trade provided plantations in the New World numerous slaves that would birth generations of slaves and perish in servitude from the 15th century until the 19th century. The first African slaves in the New World, arrived in Chesapeake, Virginia in 1619 after being sold off of a Dutch ship (70). This first transaction would signifcantly transform the colonies, plantation societies, and, agricultural economy. However, theses transformations…

this day we have problems with equality, a lot of that being minorities. Daily I hear and see stories about inequality and racism still going on in our streets and even schools which caused my attraction to this chapter. The History behind the slave trade is so strong and at some points hard to read and realize what actually happened back in the harshest and most frowned upon times of America. Document 12-1 is a document in which a professor of ancient languages at the university of North…

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…

World Trade Center 7 collapsed on the same day as World Trade Centers 1 and 2 but had a completely unrelated cause raising countless eyebrows as to what actually happened. It is stated that if the twin towers had not also come down that the collapse of World Trade Center 7 “would probably have captured the attention of the city and the world,” but since this event was dwarfed by the collapse of the Twin Towers, the mystery was never discussed. As more information regarding what really happened…

The trans-Atlantic traffic was the most important long-distance coerced movement of individuals in history and, before the mid-nineteenth century, fashioned the main demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the person population. Cumulatively, as late as 1820, nearly four Africans had crossed the Atlantic for each European, and, given the variations within the sex ratios between European and African migrant streams, regarding four out of each 5…

Roman Trade Roman regional and international trade was a common. A mix of state control and a free market economy made positive goods produced in one location could be exported far away and nearby. Cereals, wine and olive oil were exported in huge quantities while in the other direction came large imports of gold, marble, and spices. Romans over time developed a more intelligent economy after the production of an agricultural surplus, population movement and urban growth, national expansion,…