Chapter 20 Study Guide Vocabulary: 1. Factories - Portuguese trading fortresses and compounds with resident merchants; utilized throughout Portuguese trading empire to assure secure landing places and commerce 2. El Mina - most important of early Portuguese trading factories in the forest zone of Africa. 3. 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.
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
Your discussion should include the Middle Passage. 15) At its height, what was the volume of slaves traded across the Atlantic Circuit? 16) What role did African kings play in the slave trade along the African “Slave Coast”? What did they have to gain by partnering with European traders? 17) Where was the Songhai Empire and why was it considered
Brittany had created a social system that allowed the upper class African nobility to be treated respectfully, and treat peasants badly while still regarding them as fully human. Harms also explains what drove and inspired the slave traders. He admitted it was “driven by greed and afflicted with inhumanity and caused people to be treated like cattle” (Harms 18). However, Harms mentioned how not everyone involved in the slave trade thought they were doing inhumane acts. Some people defended the slave trade.
Men were social ranked upon more about how hard they worked rather than financial background, but even though this happened the African slaves and Native Americans were still looked down upon as property of other men and savages, respectively. The Revolutionary war also had a major effect on the political polices in the United States. Before the war women had nearly no rights except to raise a family. After the War women
He's going to ameliorate their conditions, he's going to make their slavery on his plantations so effective, so good, such an even joyous form of labor, that he will be doing God's work by improving slavery” (Blight). Therefore, “there are plenty of pro-slavery writers who also, to some extent, whether out of guilt or out of awareness, saw slavery as wrong, but they saw it as a problem more for white people than for black people. Their concern was not the conditions of blacks but what slavery did to whites, and usually they ended up in the same situation as Colcott Jones.”
As a result of this fear whites turned to “lynch Law” to maintain social standing (Patterson) and as risk increases, so does aggression towards rival groups for the same resources. (Ridley) This is supported by a negative correlation between the number of lynching’s and the value of cotton in the 1930s showing that when the value of cotton decreased The number of lynching’s increased, so when the number of white resources and their living standard decreased they were forced to take aggressive action in order to preserve their groups’ resources, therefore supporting social control as a group display and thus an explanation of aggression. This however is only a correlation and cause and effect cannot be established; lynching’s may have caused the decrease in the value of cotton as less businesses wanted to trade with a nation associated with lynch hangings, thus the result is not as reliable as once thought but is however still valid; we just have to apply the importance of social control with caution. The power threat hypothesis is a further example of group display and states that groups that pose a threat to others are more likely to be antagonised (Blalock). This can be supported by real world events
I will mention how it worked what the outcome of it was. The third reason is the internal Slave trade that went on all throughout the South. I will then talk about the impact this all had on the emerging U.S. How this all lead to the Civil War, Jim Crowe Laws and then Civil Rights. Slavery has been around since biblical times when the Pharaoh enslaved Hebrews until they were set free by Moses. But it wasn’t until the Portuguese introduced the idea of African slaves in 1502 that history began to unfold.
DID BLACK POWER HELP OR HINDER THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT? - BLACK POWER certainly influenced MLK, who became increasingly concerned with emphasising that black people had plenty to be proud of. He also stressed the importance of tackling social and economic questions, as well as voting and segregation issues. Black Power had helped to force these up the agenda - It gave the black community a greater sense of pride and confidence in their race and its culture. Black literature, music, theatre, fashion and food all flourished during the 1970’s However: - Black Power bought division to the movement, as some campaigners developed increasingly militant policies and groups like SNCC were broken by the strain.
India wasn’t the only country that Britain negatively affected. The British also negatively affected Africa, the country that they also helped. The British conquered land from the Africans. According to Document 4, the British were fascinated with the gold in Africa. This was positive for the British, because they achieved raw materials to trade, but it was negative for the Africans, because they were forced to work.