Voyage of Slaves

plowed, and did other heavy labor. Meanwhile, planters were wealthy, educated men who oversaw the operations on their large farms, or plantations, and the planters dealt more with logistics than with hard labor. They could be found supervising the slaves and staff and inspecting crops. 2. Some of the common crops of Virginia, Maryland, and the Carolina’s were tobacco, rice, and indigo. 3. The planters profited from these crops by selling their crops to merchants who exported items to Europe…

of the Atlantic Slave Trade and its effects on the New World. While the undesirable characteristics of slavery and the slave trade are written down and spoken about there were also some positive effects and outcomes from slavery as well. The Atlantic slave trade refers to the moving of Africans or The Middle Passage from their homeland to the New World. I will also be discussing how In the American Revolution, achieving freedom was the main purpose and motivation for black slaves who joined the…

Slave trade among Europe and other countries was done to support the economy. People were a good that could be caught at little cost and sold to different countries for profit and be exchanged between slave traders. Despite the fact that Europe's concept of expanding their riches through slave exchange may have been helpful in principle, it was not as much of an advantage as intended. In The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings, Olaudah Equiano recalls his voyage from Africa to Europe and…

It is exceedingly clear that in Equiano’s life that slavery played a monumental role. It was clear as I was reading, how impactful slavery and slave trade were on Equiano, and the millions of other Africans at that time. Though slavery was a very dark, and destructive time in the history of mankind, I think personally that Equiano would have never been the man he eventually turned out to be, if…

our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labour” [2] This is state-ment is also agreed by Hugh Thomas wrote that on average Britain and Europe transported over “11,000,000 slaves in 54200 voyages” [3]. This is true as What set the British colonial empire aside from its rivals was not the quality of its sugar colonies but the involvement of the temperate colonies on the North American mainland. Unlike the slave colonies established to exploit staple exports, English…

Princeton University Press in 2010. Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North emphasizes five generation slave owners during the colonial times in New England. John Winthrop was an important figure during this time and ultimately became the governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Exploring until coming across a 600 acre land that would later become a slave inhabited area he created a colony. “City upon a Hill” was an ideology that the colony would be looked upon by the…

Passage as a discussion about the slave trade in the Indian Ocean. The main purpose of the essay is to shed light on what all was involved with the slave trade from East Africa. Alpers does an excellent job of comparing the way slaves were treated during this voyage and how they were treated when they reached their destinations. Both voyages, West to the Americas and East through the Indian Ocean, were just one part of the traumatic journey for these African Slaves. The Other Middle Passage…

Morrison reveals the horrors of slavery through her characters. Through Paul D, the readers learn about the living arrangements slaves had to endure. Paul D is sent to prison in Georgia for threatening his owner and attempting to run away from him. The prison he was sent to was underground. Paul D and the forty five other men lived in tightly packed boxes where they were “hand-forged…

Passage was the voyage from Africa to the New World. In this voyage, there were many experiences that the African slaves had that were horrific. In the four stories, there is a lot of information about what these slaves went through on their journey in these ships. As terrible as these stories describe the treatment of the slaves, the information that is provided can not even explain how bad the people were treated. From not enough room to even stand, to being fed almost nothing, these slaves…

Slaves were treated just like animals in the 1700s. Clayton Sutton explains that, “The slaves went through starvation, torture, filth, injustice, and so many other horrors that is it amazing any survived.” This shows how poorly slaves were treated. Slaves were transported from Africa to North America. Olaudah Equiano was one of these slaves. Equiano was kidnapped from West Africa and sold to British slave traders when he was eleven. Olaudah Equiano in his narrative The Interesting Narrative of…