Africa, also known as the motherland, is a phenomenal and unique place in the world like no other. The saying “motherland” refers to Africa as the founder of human civilization. As the origin of human existence, many problems occurred during the pre colonialist time period in which Africans were being traded for rare staples such as salt and gold. By eliminating the existence of Africans from their own country, a place of complete havoc was created. In effect, relationship fragmentation was created, trade with specific countries were destroyed and depopulation in Africa was at its all time nadir point.
The essence of the slave trade impacted relationships in Africa very immensely. Due to trading with various countries the idea of maintaining a “family unit” disintegrated in shambles. Once Africans were traded it would be very rare for them to get sold to the same people. My ideology behind the reason in which multiple family members were not sold to one owner is very simple-- rebelia. If Africans of the same group were sold to one person they would be more likely to work as team and rebel against having to be dictated by their owner. In contrast, if Africans from different groups were sold to one person they are not as likely to work as a unit due to issues involving trust among their fellow enslaved groups. Thus being enslaved, many Africans lost sight of their family traditions, culture and customs due to the slave trade. Africans were required to adapt an entirely new
Slaves were bought and sold in many places, mostly for laboring farm land. In the Atlantic world during the 1500's and 1600’s there were many causes and effects to African slave trade. Many Europeans needed slaves to labor on their lands.
The African Slave Trade was a massive system of Europeans taking African Americans and selling them into slavery. The African Slave Trade began in the 15th century. This slave trade put Africa in a weird relationship with Europe that cause the depopulation of Africa, but it increased the wealth of Europe.
Slaves and slave trade has been a paramount part of history for a very long time. In the years of the British thirteen colonies in North America, slaves and slave trade was a very consequential part of its development. It even carried on to virtually 200 years of Coalesced States history. The slave trade of the thirteen colonies was a paramount part of the colonies as well as Europe and Africa. In order to supply the thirteen colonies efficiently through trade, Europe developed the method of triangular trade. It is referred to as triangular trade because it consists of trade with Africa, the thirteen colonies, and England.
The Atlantic Slave Trade was a part of African history that had made one of it's biggest impact on Africa's relation with the world and more importantly on the inner workings of the country itself due to its large-scale involvement of many of the people in the continent. Although the slave trade was so long ago the impact can still be seen in Africa's social workings within the people, its economy in the local and global market, and within the political landscape of the countries.
Thesis Statement (10 pts): Trading slaves in West Africa had changed the entire world in several ways, such as the growth of plantation in the new world, decrease while increase other societies' population, and centralization and involving in the society of new civilizations.
The slave trade in the North American colonies began to grow in the 1600s. The African slave trade sourced their slaves from many different West African villages and countries. The business of slavery was a growing and profitable field, not only for the slavers, but also for the slaveholders. With the decrease of indentured servants, settlers in the English colonies looked for a new source of labor to satisfy their growing labor demands. The next source was Africa. “By the 1690s slaves outnumbered indentured servants four to one” (45). Europeans largely disregarded the ethical dilemma posed by slavery due to the European view of Africans and their culture as uncivilized, foreign, and heathen (44). The largest forced migration in history (44)
The title of the document is The Manner in which the Slaves are procured, An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa.
Africans were being forced to different lands. The forced removal caused the separation of tribes and families. Prior to the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Africa was well-rounded. The great country was filled with historical monuments and valuables. The communities were diversified and most were politically stable. For example, some were kingdoms and others were city-states. In some kingdoms like the empire of Songhai, many advancements were taking place. The people of the kingdom were learning and engaging in the advancement of art and technology. Also, many would create items using domestic resources like ivory, gold, and bronze for local trade and use. Many Africans were resourceful which demonstrates their brilliance and uniqueness. Africans role in the world is more than significant. Africa has an overwhelming amount of things to offer. The Transatlantic Slave Trade caused a huge twist in the world for every single country. Europeans greed caused many groups, colonies, and tribes to internationally
Identify and explane the cause and effects of the afercan slave trade in the alantic world.
The African Slave Trade has affected a very large part of the world. This phenomenon has been described in many different ways, such as slave trade, forced migration and genocide. When people today think of slavery, many envision the form in which it existed in the United States before the American Civil War (1861-1865): one racially identifiable group owning and exploiting another. However, in other parts of the world, slavery has taken many different forms. In Africa, many societies recognized slaves merely as property, but others saw them as dependents whom, eventually might be integrated into the families of slave owners. Still other societies allowed slaves to attain positions of military or administrative power. Most often, both
The impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade on the people living in Angola during the seventeenth century onwards was monumental. The Portuguese presence in the Benguelan harbour caused disorder, social strain, and sociocultural transformation for the people specifically residing in Benguela. In the study An African Slaving Port on the Atlantic, Mariana Candido outlines the progression of Benguela starting from the primary Portuguese voyage in the seventeenth century until the mid-nineteenth century. She illustrates Benguela’s inauspicious beginnings and their growth into one of the
In the last 50 years much has been done to combat the entirely false and negative views about the history of Africa and Africans, which were developed in Europe in order to justify the Transatlantic Slave Trade and European colonial rule in Africa that followed it. In the eighteenth century such racist views were summed up by the words of the Scottish philosopher David Hume, who said, ‘I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilised nation of that complexion, nor even any individual, eminent either in action or in speculation. No ingenious manufacture among them, no arts, no sciences”. In the nineteenth
There were a lot of causes of the enslavement of Africans but the effects that it left had a much bigger impact, even in our lives today. In fact the effects caused by the Africans enslavement are still somewhat around to this day. Some are even huge political issues that consume our country and its social structure.
In today’s world it is widely know and accepted that money makes the world go round but, unfortunately that is not the question. The question is: what made the world go round in the early 1600’s? Surprisingly, just like the world today money made the world go around back then also. One major difference is that in today’s world machines do all of our dirty work, back then it was all up to the slaves. Finding the perfect slave was a challenge to the colonists. First, there was the indentured servants, second, came the Indians. However because Indians and indentured servants could escape to freedom with ease, they were not the ideal slaves. The colonists’ third attempt proved to be a gold mine. The unfortunate people who were forced in to
The Atlantic slave trade existed from the 16th to the early 19th century and stimulated trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Over 12 million Africans were captured and sold into chattel slavery off the coast of West Africa, and more than 2 million of them died crossing the Atlantic. These outcomes of the slave trade are rarely disputed among historians; the effect of the Atlantic slave trade in Africa, however, is often a topic of debate. Some academics, such as Walter Rodney, insist that Africans were forced to take part in the slave trade, resulting in demographic disruption and underdevelopment in all sectors of Africa. Historian John Thornton acknowledges the negative consequences of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, yet contends that it was merely an expansion of the existing internal slave trade which African rulers engaged in willingly. A final case made by Hugh Thomas completely contradicts Rodney’s thesis, asserting that the slave trade was not solely responsible for decreasing Africa’s population, and furthermore, that it was primarily beneficial to Africa’s economy and politics. The true outcome of the slave trade in Africa lies not entirely in any one of these arguments, but rests rather in a combination of all three. Although the Atlantic slave trade was detrimental to the economic and social development of Africa, the trade benefited a small portion of Africans, who willingly aligned themselves with