Age Of Exploration Negative Effects

In the autobiography, “The interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano”, the author summarizes the life of a slave as unsanitary, cruel, and degrading. Equiano describes the transportation through the middle passage as “crowded” (171) and “unfit for respiration, from a variety of loathsome smells, and brought sickness among the slaves, of which many died” (172). The author illustrates the overcrowding space that the slaves shared and lived in for months. Stating that the smells alone suffocated the ship’s “cargo” (171). The closed spaces and harsh living conditions vividly depict slavery as unsanitary as described by Equiano. He writes how food “rather than give any of them to us to eat, as we expected, they tossed the remaining fish

The slaves are endure great misery throughout the ocean journey. They cannot use the bathroom, stand up, or even walk. Once in awhile, they are brought onto the ship’s deck, and their traditional music is used against them to make them dance and exercise. It is absolute torture for them to move and stand after being

One of the most interesting arguments that modern apologists makes for the practice of race-based slavery in the Americas is the fact that slavery existed in Africa during that time period and that Africans were complicit in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. What is fascinating about Olaudah Equiano's discussion of the Middle Passage is that, as a man who had been enslaved in Africa prior to being shipped as a slave to the Americas, he was in a unique position to describe slavery in Africa with his introduction to European-influenced slavery in North America. His perception was that the immense brutality of the Middle Passage foreshadowed the dehumanization of slaves in the Americas, which was more inhumane than the treatment he had received as a slave while in Africa. Furthermore, he did not suggest that this brutality was linked to the race of the traders, though that seemed to have been his initial impression, but to the nature of the Trans-Atlantic trade. Therefore, Equiano's writings suggest that shipping Africans across the ocean for slavery was part of the dehumanizing process that helped fuel the practice of slavery in America.

The history of America is encompassed with several instances of violence, wars, and gruesome practices. One of the biggest events of the slave trade during American history was the Middle Passage. It took place between the continents of Europe, Africa, and the Americas from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth centuries. The first part of the voyage carried cargo from Europe to the African coast, where the goods were exchanged for African captives. In the second phase of the trade, Africans were traded for European goods. During this time, the slaves were packed like cargo into the carriages of sailboats and lived in repugnant conditions. The voyages lasted for several months and had severe effects on those onboard the ships.

Triangular trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas spurred economic growth, increased intercontinental diversity, and was a prime example of a globalizing world. It also spread and exacerbated the brutal and inhumane practice of slavery to the Americas, where it took root and became a cornerstone of the American way of life for years. The middle passage between West Africa and the West Indies was a voyage of misery, pain, and illness for the slaves being shipped, and while their misery does not compare with that of the enslaved, the journey was not pleasant for the white crew either.

The slave journey, after the breaking of the kinship, begins with the forced collection and shipment of the enslaved human towards the new world. On this voyage a transformation of the self takes place, a loss of hope; desperation. A slave’s mind would wonder and think if it was better to just jump off and let the sharks take their lives rather than give their life to the white man. The ‘Tall Ship’, the name of a vessel with a large mast, was the primary ship that carried hundreds of the slaves across the torturous and sickening journey (Ruddy 26 Jan. 2017). This ship not only brought goods like spices, but it also transported the slave to their new life, a life without their family or themselves. Aboard these ships is where the transformation

During the time of the slave trade, the injustices and cruelties that slavery presented were unimaginable. Enslavement of individuals meant separation from their families, destruction of their homes, and potential death. The Middle Passage, a slave voyage to the Americas, was particularly traumatic and shocking for many individuals. On the voyage, the Africans faced dangers to disease, brutal treatment, little food and sanitation, and beatings. In his account of the Middle Passage on pages 450-451, Olaudah Equiano’s description contradicts previous understandings of the slave trade not being so bad, and shows ways in which the Africans resisted the process through their actions on board; it also addresses how the Africans’ experiences on the

The Middle Passage was the next phase of the transatlantic slave trade. The Middle Passage was the worst and most grueling experience of them all. During the Middle Passage, male and female were separated from one another. Captives were often kept below the boat until the shoreline was no longer in sight. They did this to avoid the captives from escaping. In my earlier years, I was conditioned to believe that slaves were jumping off the boat to commit suicide,

In the Middle Passage, people experienced it in different ways. According to Dr. Falconbridge, a surgeon on the slave ships, “It is not in the power of the human imagination to picture to itself a situation more dreadful or disgusting… The floor of their rooms was so covered with blood and mucus because of the flux that it resembled a slaughter - house.” What he meant was that the conditions on the Middle Passage were nearly unbearable because of the poor treatment to the slaves and the lack of concern for their environment.

The Slave Ship by Marcus Rediker is a great fiction novel that describes the horrifying experiences of Africans, seamen, and captains on their journey through the Middle Passage. The Middle Passage marked the water way in the Atlantic Ocean between Africa and the Americas. The use of slaves provided a great economy for the European countries due to the fact that these African slaves provided free labor while cultivating sugar cane in the Caribbean and America. Rediker describes the slave migration by saying, “There exists no account of the mechanism for history’s greatest forced migration, which was in many ways the key to an entire phase of globalization” (10). This tells us that African enslavement to the Americas causes a complete

Atlantic slave trade from the fifteenth century and partially illegally through the nineteenth century, has always been a very ambiguous and controversial topic in North America and all around the world, and even in the modern world continues to perplex the minds of every individual. In schools and educations all around the world focus nearly too much on the brutality and evil treatment of the “black slaves”, and forget to mention the traveling of the slaves. The slave ships not only globally the general economy of the world but also played a role on spreading a sort of worldwide communism, at the ships’ most basic functions transporting the slaves, spreading cultures and foods, and finally and arguably the most important the slave ship prepared the slaves for their inevitable life on the plantations. The conditions on board of the slave ship show great proof

Also known as the Atlantic slave trade, the men and women separated, with the women located toward the stern and left unchained while the men chained and forced to lie shoulder to shoulder and located toward the vessels’ bow. The conditions on the slave ships were revolting and appalling due to the condense spacing of several slaves being on one ship, foul and putrid air, seasickness, and the heat was oppressive. These suffocating conditions and lack of sanitation formed fatal diseases. The death rate of the slave ships reached about 25% in the seventeenth century due to various diseases, including smallpox, syphilis, fever, measles, scurvy, and dysentery. The combination of disease and inadequate food lead the slaves

The African slave trade business provided horrible conditions when transporting slaves across the Atlantic. Prior to boarding a ship to cross the ocean, slaves were held at compounds and treated much like animals. Their beds were the dirt floors of where they were being held. They were fed scarcely, and when they were fed it was not the healthiest meal. Conditions continued to be inhumane once they boarded the ships. Slaves were tightly packed into the bottom of ships. Once there, they did not even have enough room to turn their bodies. The smell in the slave quarters of the ship was unbearable. Disease spread easily from person to person and often people died. Deceased slaves would not be removed from the ship until they reached the

From the 15th to the 17th century, the Europeans began to dominate the world by settling colonies and explorers in the Americas, along with the coast of Africa, parts of India and southeast Asia. This is referred as the European Age of Exploration The age was caused by advances in technology and motivated by the desire of religious factors and most importantly, economic factors. All these factors led to the Golden Age and the improvement of literature, which modified many aspects of the world.

During the late 1400s, many technological innovations has increased the development of navigation and sailing. These innovations opened the doors to the Age of Exploration, an era that started in the 15th century, where it’s effects are still seen in the world today. It began as few mere explorations to numerous expeditions. An age where Europeans would go explore, expand, and colonize new found land. It was also known as a race between the European countries for fame, wealth, and power. Due to these explorations, the trade network has significantly expanded, which improved the European economy and has increased the geographic knowledge of the world. The cause of these explorations arose due to the appealing demand for fame, wealth, and knowledge as well as to increase the faith of Christianity.