In Sparks’s writing, the Robin Johns’ story allows us "to translate those statistics (of the slave trade) into people" (5). The Robin Johns’ enslavement and liberation resulted from their active roles as slave traders at the West African region of Old Calabar. Ephraim Robin John and Ancona Robin John were members of the elite Efik slave traders of Old Calabar and participated in the Ekpe secret society that governed the commercial relations with Atlantic traders. As Old Calabar grew from a small town in the late seventeenth century to one of the most important slave trading regions of the eighteenth century, Efik traders such as the Robin Johns came to
Women, Families and Communities: Chapter 2: Women and families in slavery and the slave trade A. Beginning of slavery in North America, 1619 in Jamestown B. Mid 17th century, slave trade was a major source of wealth in Europe. C. Demand for African laborers shattered families, communities, and economic and political systems in many African nations, especially in West Africa. D. Morgan demonstrates the importance of African women to the slave trade and to the development of North American slavery.
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade The Atlantic slave trade began in the early sixteenth century and extended all the way to the late nineteenth century. It involved the transportation of millions of Africans to the Americas. These Africans were forced to leave their countries in order to become the slaves of the newly found American colonies. Just the journey across the seas to the America’s was highly inhumane cramming hundreds of people onto small boats. The reason that the African slaves were needed was because they were strong and good workers.
The slave trade impacted Africa’s population, turning it into half of what it was expected to be in 1850. Organization of the Trade: 1. Triangle trade is a trade network in which slaves from Africa were carried to the Americas, sugar, tobacco, and other goods were carried from the Americas to Europe, and European products were sent to the coast of Africa to trade for the slaves and start the whole network. African Societies, Slavery, and the Slave Trade 1. Europeans made slave trade acceptable by saying that is was already practiced in the continent and they were not the first.
5) Why did the Spanish ultimately opt to use African as slaves over the Amerindians? 6) What new ethnicities were born out of the trade of peoples between the Old and New World? Your discussion should focus on Creoles, Mestizos and Mulattos. 7) Compare and Contrast European settlements in Latin America and those in North American. 8) What was indentured servitude and how did it differ from the Latin labor system of the encomienda?
Some people defended the slave trade. Savery de Bruslons echoed Mellier’s defense of the slave trade when he published his Dictionnaire Universel de Commerce. He wrote that the slaves were giving up their freedom in exchange for their lives in a path to salvation. He believed they owed their lives to the slave traders, and that by capturing the slaves they can be taken to a place where they can be baptized and instructed in the Catholic religion. In addition, the slave traders believed the overpopulated make-belief region of Africa called Nigritie would only be salvaged by taking some of the inhabitants and diminishing the
Jane Doe African & Latino Studies 12/6/13 America’s Corruption: The beginning Colonists built America on the bones and decimation of the African culture by creating a new culture based on oppression. Whipping, raping, cutting the of body parts of Africans; the colonists were no different from Christopher Columbus. They are our forefathers, who started the corruption in a nation we call “free”. Where is the justice, when black men were considered 1/5th of the population and black women were used for breeding and as a means of sexual relief? The psychological impact of oppression on the African society has been pressed into their descendents mental state as the African descendents are facing prejudice behavior generation after generation.
“Blackness” of American culture probably got its beginning with demand for slaves to cultivate sugarcane and other crops for what groups of black slaves were forcibly shipped from their homes to America. They did not immigrate, seeking greater opportunity, like others; they came in chains (Perry). They were seized from their villages and homes leaving all their possessions behind. They came from diverse cultures and the only possessions they were able to bring with them were “their own ideas about life, their own cultures, and their own cosmology” (Perry). Dr. Munashe Furusa, in his presentation on “African Influence the World”, emphasizes that for one to understand his/her destiny one should come to understanding of his/her origin and nature which can explain the meaning of “blackness”.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE Africans represent many different people, each with distinct cultures, religions, and languages. The first Africans arrived in America to Jamestown, Virginia in 1619, just as indentured servants arrived in America from Europe, when a Dutch ship brought the first slaves from Africa to the shores of North America against their will. At first, indentured servants were poor Europeans who wanted to escape harsh conditions and take advantage of opportunities in America. The Africans were brought to America’s developing colonies at a time when workers were needed to keep the economy running. The entire southern American economy and the states needed laborers to work on the plantations where they grew tobacco,
While the Haitian Revolution and Latin American Wars for Independence were different in the act of slave revolts and leadership of the revolutions, they were similar because both revolutions concluded in the abolition of slavery, and founding of a new state. Slave revolts were a major contributor in the Haitian Revolution whereas the Latin American Wars of Independence had citizens freeing the slaves. The rebellion of slaves that began the Haitian Revolution commenced in April of 1791. In 1810 enlightened thinking spurred the desire for economic reform to spread throughout Latin America. Citizens fought for the basic human rights for the slaves.