The slave trade was no longer monopolized by the Royal African Co., therefore opening up a new market of human trade to fuel the growth of the American colonies which was dependent on the cheap forced labor to oversee the cultivation of corps like tobacco in the United States, and Sugar cane in the Caribbean Islands and its Lesser Antilles. In the newly formed colonies “migrant slaves from Africa outnumbered the European migrants nearly five to one.”(Pg. 50) Over the next century and a half more than 21 million people had been enslaved in Africa and forced into slavery in the New World as described in the
American Slavery To think that the institution of American Slavery was a good-natured and acceptable act is beyond belief. On the other hand, it has been said that slavery is what made America what it is today. Slavery is a system, which people are treated with no respect and are forced to do hard labor(civilwar). Majority of slaves were African-Americans and many of the children and women were still forced to do harsh labor. When northern America was taken over by the Europeans, there was a shortage of labor.
Whether it was in the Middle East, East Asia or America, everywhere had some type of slavery. The book “Slavery” states, “Slavery was very much a part of life in a classical society: in those days no one seemed to question whether it should or should not exist. (14)” Many slaves did not even know much about their family history or even their age. Booker T. Washington’s “Up from Slavery” is a narrative about his life as a slave. It talks about how upsetting it was for him to not know his age or much about his family.
I choose to talk about how slavery was very vital in the Atlantic economy in the 18th century. When most people talk about or think about slavery, they look at how it affected the US. The Atlantic Slave Trade had a huge effect on the US but there are no words or expressions that can describe the effects it had on Africa and its family’s. To understand the effects this had on Africa you must consider the families that lost relatives, the stores that lost business, and even the friends that lost friendships. None of the misfortunes can be brought back or replaced.
M 6:15pm Spring 2015 The Conditions of Slaves Slavery was considered as an institution as it had been widely used all over the world before it was practiced throughout American Colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries. As businesses in the Southern colonies spiked, so did the demand for field and house servants. Oftentimes, these slaves were not given any rights. In addition, slaves were not protected by law. Likewise, marriages were not protected by law either.
The slave trade expanded to meet the demand for labor in the new American colonies, and millions were exported in an organized commerce that involved Europeans, Africans as well as the colonies. The slave labor made up a huge percentage of the workforce because of they cheap and effect work. . By the mid-1800s the starting with the British Slave Trade Act of 1807 the idea of slavery was being looked down upon. Starting with the British then the USA followed soon by many European countries the slave trade was completely outlawed.
With all these factors, they only take place because of the enslavement of Africans. Africans were shipped from many regions of Africa but mostly from those areas along the coast. The Bantu, along the Guinea coast had largest homogenous culture followed by the Mande, thus the culture of African-Americans was influenced the most by the people of these regions. In the colonies the economic demand for slaves and the demographics of the slave population had an enormous effect on the development of Afro-American culture. Never did their exist one Afro-American culture, for each area had a different social, economic, and political reliance on slavery, which characterized a unique slave culture.
Feminist Perspective: Race Relations Racism towards African Americans and other races have been a struggle to overcome and somewhat continues in our country today. Racism starts far back as the early 1600's. Slavery became the form of labor for the white Americans to produce food, cotton,etc. The slave trade provided a lot of wealth to the white Americans in the United States. African people became enslaved; it seems to me like they did not have the power to fight off the white Americans.
They moved into Cape Verde Islands to set up trading post to purchase captive slaves. They were the first of the Europeans to have trading settlements in the sub-Saharan Africa. They had settlements in both Guinea and Angola for slave trading. The rulers of Guinea do not have any interest in allowing the Europeans to come inland any further than the coast. Holland became one of the Portuguese’s major competitors.
Even though they were promised as part of their agreement land, tools, and clothes male indentured servants often were left on their own and were not prepared for the life that was upon them. Slave trading began when ships from Portugal were sailing down the African coast intent on trading. The longer they were there they discovered a way to make more money and that was to trade human beings for work. Eventually this took over as the main source of income and they decided instead of taking these slaves to Europe they would be more valuable to the early settlers of America. The journey to America was very hard on everyone whether it was a