Royal African Company - chartered in 1660s to establish a monopoly over the slave trade among British merchants; supplied African slaves to colonies Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia 4. triangular trade - commerce linking Africa, the new world colonies, and Europe; slaves carried to America for sugar, and tobacco transported to Europe 5. Asante - established in Gold Coast among Akan people settled around Kumasi;
Slaves can gain freedom if they worked out their term of being an indentured servant. But because African servants have dark skin the colony soon see black only as slaves, so it became a custom for the white colonials to have slaves. They were first brought to the colonies for planter’s plantation manual labor. As the staple crops in the colonies commercial markets increased so did
Name Date CHAPTER 4 Summary CHAPTERS IN BRIEF The Atlantic World, 1492–1800 CHAPTER OVERVIEW Starting in 1492, the Spanish built a large empire in the Americas, but the native peoples suffered. In North America, the Dutch, French, and English fought for control. England finally won. The labor of enslaved persons brought from Africa supported the American colonies. The contact between the Old World and the New produced an exchange of new ideas.
Many Americans believed that there was only the black slavery. Yet until the 1660’s indentured servitude was the common way in the colonies. With the establishment of European colonies in America, it was quickly found that there was too much work for the settlers to do by themselves. The Jamestown settlement had the first indentured servants arriving within the first decade. [1]In the beginning the Virginia Company of London would pay to have servants transported across the Atlantic Ocean.
The Middle Passage The middle passage was when African Americans were forced to go from the West Coast of Africa to the Caribbean’s where they were marketed, and sold for profit to the plantations owners. This journey was listed as the “Middle Passage” because it was considered the middle leg of the trading triangles, and this was constructed in the early stages of the colonial period. The Middle Passage started from even before 1619 an it was the arrival of the very first African slaves in British Northern America. However, as it developed it was initially amongst Portuguese and the West African mariners in the latter part of the fifteenth century. The Africans were taken or for better word use they were kidnapped by the Europeans and, by other Africans mostly for trading spoils of
They then escaped to England where they sued for their freedom, and finally made their way back to Old Calabar. The account of these two princes comes from many different sources coupled together by Sparks. Letters written by Ephraim Robin John and Ancona Robin John, brothers native of Old Calabar, are principal sources for the Atlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century. These letters provide insight to the transatlantic slave trade centered on the lives of two individuals. In Sparks’s writing, the Robin Johns’ story allows us "to translate those statistics (of the slave trade) into people" (5).
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.
Equiano states that his capture was the typical of how the slave trade worked (Equiano, p.8). This was nothing new to him, his father owned slaves himself in the Igbo Nation. Many of these slaves were either slaves of war or had been convicted of crimes such as, adultery or kidnapping. While being a captive slave, Equiano was only considered as being a piece of property and was treated as mere cargo instead of as a human. He was first put up for sale in the spring of 1756, not being purchased he climbed aboard a smaller ship and became property of the planter, Campbell.
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.
A Historical Report on Race: African Americans A Historical Report on Race: African Americans Most people are aware that in the early seventeenth century Africans were brought over on trading ships to be used as slaves in the colonies that would soon earn their independence from English rule. Before the slave trade was made illegal in 1808 Africans were sold into slavery to do many things like working on cotton and tobacco plantations in the South. Slaves were treated as less than humans. They were very poorly treated. Slaves were considered property of the owners and could be treated however the owners wished.