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.
Millions of Africans were shipped by force o America. The slave trade had many disastrous results in Africa societies. The slave trade became an important aspect of a dynamic and complex situation in Africa during the period from the 15th to 17th centuries. Slaves had been treated the same in the Ottoman Empire and Africa. Slaves in Africa and the Ottoman Empire were a part of society and had a chance to promote.
Brookes slave ship My name is Richard Brooks captian of my dear “Brookes”. It was my duty to successfully make the passage from Once the slaves were taken to the ship, the were shackled in pairs and packed into the small amount of room available on the ship. Although the conditions were extremely harsh, the captains of slave ships tried to deliver as many healthy slaves for as little cost as possible. Some captains used a system called loose packing to deliver slaves. Under that system, captains transported fewer slaves than their ships could carry in the hope of reducing sickness and death among them.
The economy would be at a state of corruption. Supporters of slavery would argue that without salves the economy would collapse. Another economic argument was the foreign countries, as well as the north, were dependent on slave trade. Much of the British economy was reliant on the slave trade - both directly and indirectly. Raw produce such as sugar, tobacco, tea, coffee and cotton all came from slave plantations.
While not only explaining that the Atlantic Slave Trade system was a large business for many different nations, it was not all good. There were many atrocities that happened during this time period. He includes in his book, many tables, charts, and maps to help the reader better understand just how big it actually was. To me, he goes into a little too much depth with his explanation of how the trade started in Greece and Rome with all the people around there using slave labor. He also goes off topic with his parts about the Roman army.
During the Slave Trade, many slaves came from different slave ports: Eastern Africa, Guinea Coast, Southern Africa, Western Sudan, and Central Sudan. The Middle Passage was used to describe slave trade from Africa to America. Approximately 10 million slaves came to America between 1603 and 1863. Some people also call it the Triangular Trade, because the ships traveled on ways that formed a shape of a triangle. The trips from these different countries to America were tremendously awful.
Ch.4 Sec 1: Slavery and Empire -Mercantilism realized: the triangular trade. -West Africa had become a thriving slave industry since the Portuguese had arrived while going to the West coast. Most slaves went to other destinations, like South America( Brazil), Caribbean and then some to the Americas. Very little of them went straight to North America. *The Ordeal of the Slave* -A state of perpetual terror: 1) first caught from her/ his tribe by the Europeans or another tribe.
Also, many Africans knew about farming so they would be accustomed to the work involved. Third, Africans were strangers to the Americas and would know no places to hide from slavery. From 1500 to 1870, when the slave trade in the Americas finally ended, about 9.5 million Africans had been imported as slaves. The Spanish first began the practice of bringing Africans to the Americas. However, the Portuguese—looking for workers for sugar plantations in Brazil—increased the demand for slaves.
Many were mostly sent to the plantations such as the sugar plantations this was mainly in Brazil and in the Caribbean’s. Seasoned slaves were preferred because they were already disciplined by their masters. Finally Africans survived the horrible treatment, and the conditions the most brutal of this was the Atlantic slave trade. When we look back at the struggles that the African Americans went through it testifies to humility and humanity as well as the spirit which is the corner stone as well as the middle of the African American
F.Q.R In Britain’s North America from the period of 1607 to 1776 there was slavery and how slavery started because of the demand for tobacco and sugar cane and the African Americans were the only ones who knew how to grow it. The first Africans that were sent to America were the ones in the Caribbean. The demand for slaves in North America helped expand the slave’s trade. As the slave trade expanded it also got more terrible. The Africans were brought here into filthy dark and were packed onto the ships also known as the “middle passage”.