Agricultural Revolution Vs Open Field System

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.

The putting out system worked by having a merchant gave raw materials to rural cottage workers. At home, the cottage workers would process those raw materials and then return the finished product to the merchant, who would pay the workers and sell the product. It was a form of capitalism.

Everyone has their own understanding of what slavery is, but there are misconceptions about the history of “slavery”. Not many people understand how the slave trade initially began. Originally Africa had “slaves” but they were servants or serfs, sometimes these people could be part of the master’s family. They could own land, rise to positions of power, and even purchase their freedom. This changed when white captains came to Africa and offered weapons, rum, and manufactured goods for people. African kings and merchants gave away the criminals, debtors, and prisoner from rival tribes. The demand for cheap labor was increasing, this resulted in the forced migration of over ten million slaves. The Atlantic Slave Trade occurred from 1500 to 1880 CE. This large-scale event changed the economy and histories of many places. The Atlantic Slave Trade held a great amount of significance in the development of America. Africans shaped America by building a solid foundation for the country.

Firstly, Africa was vastly impacted from trade and impacted others by trade. Africa was the main country in charge of the Gold-Salt trade at this time. Gold and salt were both equal, as salt had just as many values as gold did. Africa used gold and salt to trade for more goods. Africa also tried to expand trade, but it also spreads religion. This links to China when they completed the Grand Canal to expand

Africa was once abundant with many resources that were highly valued by the people around them. All of this lead to Africa being able to trade for lots of materials they didn't have access too. This allowed many to grow rich but in the end slavery permanently damaged the african society. Africa was part of a system of both regional and international trade however trade affected people's lives in different parts positive and negative.

By 1750 U.S was mainly agricultural, this meant the country was essentially pre-industrial and domestic. According to our text 9 out of every 10 Americans lived on a farm (2). Households were generally engaged in subsistence farming and production was done mostly for home consumption. America had an immeasurable amount of fertile unused land that the government gave away (2). At the time of George Washington's inauguration in 1789 the U,S population comprised of 4 million people. The population had doubled to 8 million at the time of the War of 1812 and then again to 16 million in 1835. This rapid population growth did not stop until 1858, we did however continue to increase in number just at a slower pace, hitting our 100 million mark in 1915, and 300 million in 2006 (3). As the population rapidly increased so did the output of farm labor.

The Atlantic slave trade was just one part of a three legged international trade network. This was known as the triangular trade, because of the shape of the route from each of the three points to stop and trade being shaped just like a triangle. It linked Europe, Africa, and the Americas. It was a very important piece of society in the 15th century. There were benefits to this trade, but mostly to the businesses and merchants. However, the impact it had on the African people lasted for centuries after slavery had ended through racism and discrimination.

Slavery developed in the Americas because of exploration and need or labor. Europeans captured Africans and transported them across the deadly Middle Passage, to the Americas, where they would be forced to poor under harsh conditions. Slavery had many lasting effects. Africa was depopulated, and Africans in America lost their cultures and identity while Europeans made money from the resources being exported in the Americas at the expense of Africans’ lives and culture.

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

The Slave Trade’s Effect in Africa The slave trade affected America and dug its roots into the country’s history. Africans were the majority of the American slaves and arrived in America in 1620. However, Africans enslaved their own people, other countries also enslaved and effected Africa in multiple ways. It effected the safety of the communities, the economy, the work force, education and growth of communities.

African slave trade or Atlantic slave trade was the result of advancement of maritime innovation and the ambitious imperialism that swept among the powerful countries of Europe. With new set of maritime skills and innovation, firstly Portuguese’s traders crossed harsh seas along the coast of western Africa. What began as the quest for the exchange of goods between European and African merchant, swiftly changed into the massive potential of cheap labor and unlimited resources to exploit with the founding of new European colonies in Caribbean, Central and south America respectively. These colonies used slaves as the laborer in the coffee, coco, tobacco and sugar production, often in harsh conditions and longer working period, which not possible by white settlers’ due drastic change of climate and tropical diseases.

The impact of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade was very widespread. The main effect which everyone knows which is very negative which is stated in our slides would be the depopulation of Africa taking everyone out of the country and shipping them off to various places defiantly cuts down on the populations and its not like all of them survived their travels many ended up dying (Kapatamoyo). The impact people say that the slaves were harassed until death at sea is really exaggerated, the book says that most slaves didn’t die from being injured out at sea, but mostly from epidemics passed around on the boat killing many slaves (Harrold pg. 38). The reasoning behind this is very believable for the fact why would you pay for something, but kill it before you put it into work that is basically a waste of your money. A huge impact the Trans-Atlantic slave trade had on Africa was also the Demographic impact it messed up marriage patterns and potentially reproducing more people, because they were taking all the males away from African it is a little hard to have a kid without a male involved (University of Calgary). The positive impact maybe one of the only to come out of this was the New World was able to produce so many new things often being called a “rich” place to come to because of all the opportunities and resources they had there.

During the discovery of the New World, the Trans-Atlantic slave trade impacted the the New World heavely. In Africa slavery already existed, but the one major change was using the slaves for the plantation system. Slavery was needed for the growth of the economy.

It is commonly believed that people roamed wherever his game did before the Agriculture Revolution. Because people are totally dependent on food for survival, changes in agriculture can have a huge affect on people. In the Agriculture Revolution, people built farms and raised their own food rather than being in constant pursuit of it. This crucial change in food surplus allowed the development of permanent settlements and technological advancements, government and laws, and religion and culture.

The Agricultural Revolution will be forever known in history as the revolution that saved the human population from famine and complete extinction. Before the revolution had started, the people of the villages had no connections to the outside world leaving them with no options of trade, getting food and no new technology to help them plow the fields. The plowing method that was currently being used was no better because a- it was not suitable for the wetter soil and b- it put strain on the Oxen by putting the yoke harness on their neck instead of their chest.The two field system in a way kept the population from growing due to no rotation of crops and having two different fields being used for different reasons.