Voyage of Slaves

slavery which were deemed legal. The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 enacted on March 2nd, 1807, is a United States federal law that stated that no new slaves were permitted to be imported into the…

and the Americas. There were many changes during that time period. Changes such as slave trade and the new crops that were introduced. There were also things that did not change. Aspects such as patriarchy and religions. Many people believe that some things never had the intentions to change. There were also parts that could have advanced and could have changed, and that’s exactly what occurred. To start off, slave trading…

A former slave by the name of Olaudah Equiano wrote his own book called The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. His life started in the country of Eboe, which is now the country of Guinea in Africa. His life was simple and so were his people. In his native land, his father was a village elder so their family were in higher status quo. Slaves were a common thing around his village and often time’s people from his tribe owned slaves. One thing he noticed was the difference…

the practices of the slave trade included high level auctions. In the south, due to the newly developed cotton gin, plantation owners could make an immense amount of cash by growing cotton. However, since the labor for growing cotton was highly strenuous, plantation owners sought after slaves to complete their tasking work. The Atlantic Slave Trade immediately ramped up again when progressively more boats traveled across the middle passage. After the middle passage, the slaves would arrive…

Francis Drake partook in some of the first English slaving voyages to Africa and earned a reputation for piracy against the Spanish. Sent to South America by Queen Elizabeth II in 1577, he returned home by the Pacific and thusly became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. The queen rewarded him with knighthood. Drake died in January 1596 of dysentery. In 1567, Drake sailed to Africa in order to join the fledgling slave trade. When he sailed to New Spain to sell his captives to…

on a difficult journey of what it was like to travel the middle passage for a slave from 1700-1808 in his riveting book, The Slave Ship: A Human History. He focuses heavily on the calculated barbarity of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and how it gave birth to capitalism with the commodification of humans as goods to be bought and sold on the open market. Rediker gives us a unique and unexplored perspective of the slave trade to give us a sense of the violence that occurred not only on the decks…

indigenous populations in the Americas during the late 1400s to early 1500s created a need for a new source of labor, which initially started the slave trade. Millions of Africans were forced out of their homes and were brought to the Americas as slaves working in plantations, many dying in the process. These events essentially became the roots for Africans and Slave culture in Latin America. Sugar was a plantation crop, that required lots of capital investment and a large labor force, a crop…

it. He states “such a tendency has the slave trade to debauch men’s minds, and harden them to every feeling of humanity!” Equanio comes off as though he’s never seen such an extent of cruelty to whip and lash on another for no particular reason. Demoralizing their very being. What’s expressed in this quote in my opinion is that Equiano is trying to point out an ongoing chain of hate toward his kind. He mentions “I will not suppose that the dealers in slaves are born worse than other men” meaning…

Europeans decided to use Africans in the new world because the Native Americans stopped their slavery. Before the Europeans went to Africa for slaves the Native Americans were slaves, but three things put a stop to it. First, the Indians were all dying of epidemic diseases, which Africans had already been exposed to. Second, the Indians, being native, had a better knowledge of the land and its peoples, which made escape/revolt attempts more likely to be successful. Third, in response to debates…

triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. In the Middle Passage, European ships left Europe and headed to African countries in which they traded goods that they brought with them for purchased or smuggled African slaves. Voyages on the Middle Passage were usually financial undertakings rather than individuals funding the voyages. 2. African cottage…