Voyage of Slaves

the year 1776, Gabriel Prosser, later became the leader (the most important leader) of an unsuccessful slave revolt (Gabriel’s Conspriracy). At age ten, he and his brother (Solomon) began training to be blacksmiths. He was owned by Thomas H. Prosser of Henrico County, Virginia, who owned a tobacco plantation. Luckily, when he was a child he was taught to read and write. Compared to other slaves,…

against the brutal conditions in the Haiti sugar plantations. These two revolutions are connected because the events in France incited some of the major events in Haiti. For example, slave revolts were inspired by the drafting of the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen. In addition, the emancipation of the slaves was a result of France’s warfare with multiple European countries. The French and Haitian Revolution are…

Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845) giving a detailed description of the institution of slavery and to let people know to not be mistaken or forget the immense cruelty that went on. He published this less than seven years after he escaped slavery with brutal details, details that seem almost too horrific to be a reality though many people quoted that nothing was exaggerated.This narrative gives anyone who wants to learn, a glimpse of what it was like to live as a slave.…

history of mankind. With an estimate of 12.5 million slaves shipped away from their home to colonies, The cultural effect of Portugal’s integration in Africa influenced various cultural controversies in African societies such as local wars and greed for slaves. Brazilian colonies and other American colonies were developing in the “New World” at a rapid speed. Portuguese coffee and sugar plantations…

Through the years, the plague had devastated Europe, and the Europeans started to rebuild after plague with eyes on the New World. The King of Spain seeking riches, from across the waters in the New World, financed Christopher Columbus voyage to the New World. Columbus acquired a ships and crews, and among his crew were some free Africans, and his trusty Navigator, Pedro Alonso Nino, an African Moor, who had sailed the waters of the Atlantic. So, Columbus sailed from Spain in 1492. He supplied…

The Gullah People in Relation to the African Diaspora In the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, the infamous middle passage occurred. During this horrific voyage, slaves of the African descent suffered and many died in result of the conditions of the voyage. Among the people who were on voyage, were the ancestors of the Gullah people. The Gullah people were able to sustain the culture and traditions of their homeland. Their overall connection to the African diaspora, their continuity, and…

significance derives from the fact that this time period marks the origin of the slave trade. The slave trade, which began as a simple act to impress a king, quickly escalated into a system that used and abused the lives of africans in order to obtain an economic advantage. This system, which is now referred to as the transatlantic slave trade, lasted hundreds of years until its abolition in 1807. The transatlantic slave trade was a horrific occurrence that had a great impact on the black…

Essay A: Transatlantic Slave Trade The trade lasted for four centuries, between 15th and 19th centuries, across the Atlantic Ocean. This kind of trade remains to be unique with the concept of slave history because of the duration it took (about four centuries), the victims involved and the development of legitimization. The majority of people who were enslaved and transported from one continent to another during this period were West Africans especially from the western and central parts of…

Beginning in the late 15th and 16th centuries, slave trade became quite popular in the slaves’ home country of Africa, where they were strictly imprisoned and horribly mistreated, as represented by the 18th century writings of Mungo Park and Olauda Equiano. Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer who voyaged to Africa’s interior. During his visit, Park witnessed the African slave trade in action. His accounts led him to produce Travels to the Interior Districts of Africa. In his writings Park…

Bondage And My Freedom by Frederick Douglass, Clay Has Vivid Memory by Clay Smith, and “Story Of An Ex-Slave” by Parmella M. Anderson. It may not be easy but if you set your mind to it and work hard, it can be achieved. The first story is “A True Story. Repeated…