Slavery in the spanish colonies first started when settlers enslaved natives using then to work on local labor. When the portuguese had an increase in the demand of agricultural products they needed workers but many lives were being talke from native slave, they were not working hard, and diseases from the new world were killing them. this was when they noticed that Aficans were immune to the conditions and diseases. Being a slave in Africa was good for some but ever since the Portuguese came in to the slave trade, life for a slave became harsh. The main reason why the portuguese enslaved aficans was so they can have men to work on plantations.
Slavery was such a vital part in the cultivation of cash crops such as sugarcane that it was introduced to North America with its colonization. The availability of land combined with the growing demand of sugarcane in Europe quickly created an insatiable demand for African slaves, whom, by happenstance, tended to be suited well for work in the warm and tropical environments of the Americas. These Africans at first became indentured servants; nevertheless, the growing arrogance of the white man in his spiritual superiority and the need for even more labor led to the swift decline of the indentured servant. When other alternatives to slavery such as cheap white labor and convict laborers failed to deliver the desired results, the prevalent abstraction of a racially-based slave system finally emerged in the 1680’s. Furthermore, slave uprisings would also play a role in the shaping of the structure of slavery.
In the early as the 15 century, England passed from raising sheep and producing wool, an agricultural activity, to manufacturing cloth. This signaled the beginning of capitalist production. It is in capitalist production that we can locate the basic cause of the slave trade. The slave ship sailed from the home country with a cargo of manufactured goods. These were exchanged at a profit on the coast of Africa for Negroes, who were traded on the plantations, at another profit, in exchange for a cargo of colonial produce to be taken back to the home country.
“Jamaica became popular in producing tobacco, cocoa and sugar for the British” (Mason). Jamaica became the most valuable Caribbean colony because of the crops it was able to produce. “The English developed a flourishing plantation economy with slave labor brought from West Africa, but the abolition of the slave trade in 1834, the Civil War in the United States and the removal of British tariff protection for Jamaican products destroyed the economy and led to a black uprising in Morant Bay in 1865” (Kurian). The economy was gradually rebuilt when the British Parliament established a Crown colony government. “The British then began new programs; banana cultivation, internal transportation and educational and public health facilities” (Kurian).
African groups of people were also split up into kingships and because so many of them were being imported to Europe they brought their type of community wight hem when they were traded, one can see that the slaves definitely form something similar to these types of groups when they were settled down. The Atlantic Slave trade also affected Africa socially through the demographic side of things. The slave trade created an offset in the sex ratio which caused decline in the population. It put Africa off-balanced and created man problems for them while the Europeans experience expansion of their class system and the further development of capitalism. Economically the Atlantic slave trade changed the way these countries work.
The market for slaves itself was large, slaves could be brought, sold, and even rented out. Not only was the market for slaves large, they stimulated other parts of Ancient Rome’s economy. Slaves were used on farms, on public state projects, as household servants, as prostitutes, and even as gladiators, Slavery was view as tradition so embedded into daily life, so that Romans didn’t want to abolish the act. Just as Ancient Rome, slavery was embedded into the Ante-bellum South. The United States owes its early prosperity to slavery, because slavery really stimulated and developed the American agriculture.
Both South Carolina and the Chesapeake were affected by these Barbadians ways of slave holding. In the Chesapeake, newly arrived African slaves often were put to work on the outskirts of the plantation, which were called quarters. They were sometimes moved closer towards the middle of the plantation once they learned some English and the routines of growing tobacco in America. Tobacco originated in the Americas, but was also grown in some parts of Africa, so Chesapeake planters often used their laborers' expertise for growing their crops. The majority of these laborers were men.
The south had an extremely large amount of slaves. Over time slavery flourished in the upper south and failed to do so in the north. But there were certain parts of the north that was very important to slavery. The northern states were seeking to buy a greater volume of raw materials but the european trading house basically controlled the market. The northern states were the trade competitors of europe.
Just as in any European country, people of the higher socio-economic status owned slaves to do labor. The trans-Saharan slave trade was in place by the 9th century and serviced societies of North Africa, the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean Enslaved Africans were used as soldiers, bureaucrats, and domestics (Ugo). Sometimes, in order to put focus on the transatlantic slave trade, the Trans-Saharan slave trade is minimized. However, these two worked hand in hand. Dominating most scholarly discussions, the transatlantic slave trade is constantly under debate.
The women folk who made up the colonial population, while they could not vote, preach, hold office, attend school, bring lawsuits, make contracts, or own property; these barriers did not prevent many from engaging in commerce, being in professions, and land owners. In the south, plantation economy flourished by providing agricultural products for England. Initially, indentured laborers then African slaves provided the labor necessary to run the large plantations. From the entire West Africa and from the East Africa originated Africans who became slaves, initially for sugar plantations of Brazil and the Caribbean, and then moved to the south of America in the 1600’s. In the 1700’s slaves were obtained directly from Africa.