Effects Of Enslavement On African Americans

Despite the obvious cultural groups, there were some common fragments across all the groups. Christianity had pervaded throughout the slave community, though not all slaves were Christians, and not all were accepted at a church. Some individuals had no choice and Christianity was forced upon them, they found that the religion could be adapted from the traditional ways, and brought aspects of their own diverse cultures to it. Due to the loss of culture, slaves turned to new practices with fusions of Christianity and African spirituality, some of which included

When columbus first found the Americas little did he or anyone in this case know everything that would happen in the next few years he would rewrite history and change it to how we know it now.

When most people hear the term “Civil War”, most people think of the enslavement of African Americans. This makes sense because that played a extremely big role in the American Civil War.

Slave owners also gave slaves small incentives in hopes that they would work harder, this included: extra food, extra clothing, and in rare cases, time free from work. These incentives were nothing compared to the torment and brutality that black Africans had to endure. Slaves during this time had to endure harsh lashes, hangings, chopping of limbs off, as well as the terrible conditions of riding a boat from Africa to The New World. These conditions on the boat ride were completely vile. Thousands of Africans were stuffed on a boat like sardines in a can. Africans were fed very little food, and when Africans died, they were simply left allowing diseases to be spread, along with feces and urine everywhere. ( 2011, Plantation Life.) The institution of slavery in America was a horrific experience for Africans that would change The United States in several ways. The most important ways the institution of slavery changed The United States was: it was a main underlying cause of The Civil War, and there has and always will be a racial barrier between the colors white and

Whites controlled African slaves by taken them from their tribes and forcing them onto slave ships. Africans were forced to walk long distances to get to the coast to board a slave ship. After being captured whites would put the Africans in chains, around the neck, hands, and feet, so they couldn’t run away. When the Africans got to the slave ships they were treated horribly. Typically, the trip from Africa was between 60 and 90 days, the length varied each final destination. The conditions of the ships were horrendous, the Africans didn’t have food or water. They weren’t allowed on the top deck; the ships were over capacitated. The Africans were laying and sleeping in their own or others feces. When Africans died, occurred often, they were

From the harsh sea to the lack of food, many now consider slaves, committed suicide, refused to eat, or revolted. It got to the point where slave best solution was to simply commit suicide just to escape what was to come. “Some took the opportunity to jump overboard, uttering cries of triumph as they cleared the vessel and disappeared below the surface.” Cries of triumph as they jumped into the sea, was their version of a victory. Death an idea that was and still is feared was for a long while was a victory for the Africans who had their heart and souls ripped out of them just. And for those who lost the battle on the ship and end up surviving the trip to America where put up for auction, “…purchasers examined them for defects, looked at the teeth, pinched the skin, sometimes tasted the perspiration to see if the slaves’ blood was pure and his health as good as his appearance.” As if they were looking at live stocks they searched the slaves and once they have found the right slave they bought them and sent them off to work on their field harvesting crops endlessly will breaks that nearly didn’t

. Africans became inferior and were seen to be destined to be slaves. A sense of helplessness came in play, but no one realizes the mental aspect of it. African slaves hardships became a huge psychological factor. We must realize that the mind is powerful. Many wanted to end their own lives by jumping off the ship. Many were even afraid they would get killed from what they witnessed. No man should have such fear like that. Not only was their mind impacted but their culture was taken. Their culture no longer mattered but what mattered was power, wealth, and prosperity.

“The men were packed together below deck and were secured by leg irons.” As said in this source the men were packed tightly with barely any space to move.They were limited to any movement below deck. They were chained together. The low ceilings on the ship made it hard for them to sit up correctly. The heat on the ships was unbearable . Many deaths happened on board. Either africans were very ill that it drove to death,or beatend, or decided they could not take it anymore and took their own lives.Many women were exposed to sexual abuse on board. Africans were being beat with whips. All of these cruel things happened on board. These things left the africans in physical pain and emotional pain. Marked their lives and their backs. Slaves were being tightly packed on ships when being transported. They believed the more slaves they had on board the more the profit would be for them. This was not a good idea because the most slaves on board caused a high chance of disease and deaths on board. Which lead to a loss in profit. On board captains did not help the africans be in a sanitary area. They placed buckets so they can use. The africans were covered in feces because they were not able to reach the other buckets and they would stumble on others.The people that worked on the boats did not care about how the africans felt if they died they would throw the bodies off the boat into the

The captains were often cruel. The enslaved Africans as well as the crew suffered from the poor conditions and treatment. Disease was common and many would die before we reached our destination.

African slaves lived a brutal and harsh life during the American Enlightenment and the Great Awakening, but nothing could compare to the events as those that took place during the Atlantic slave trade. Slavery was already worse in the North America

Slave did not get lots to eat so some die from starvation and the others got weak and sick. Some of the slaves have been weathered out or under the weather and are forced to keep working or they will get beaten,which could lead to over beating and killed to death.Most slave try to or do run away and if they do the owner won’t go looking for them because they hid in the mountains and if they have to they will fight back.most of the slave die from disease or the heat kills them, with the disease they most likely dei pretty quickly and don’t suffer to bad.THe heat from working all day can wear you down to much were you can’t do anything.they often die by millions because of the diseases .When transporting slave they were all super close and if one had a disease They could all get it and that's where most of the dead by millions came into place. There was not much room in the bottom of the ship to have more than millions of slave in there.they could not be standing up they were all laying flat on their backs in the bottom of these boat. The transport of slaves from africa to the americas forms the middle passage of the triangular trade.Several distinct regions can be identified along the west african coast, These are distinguished by the particular european countries who visited the slave ports, The people who were enslaved,and the dominant african society who provided the slaves.In the voyage in the middle message in the first couple of the weeks and were a results of malnutrition and disease encountered during the forced marches and subsequent interment at slave camps on the coast.The estimated deaths rate of around 13% is lower than the mortality rate for seaman,officers and the passenger on the same voyages. There were two different slaves The task labors and the gang labors.The Gang labors were the slaves that had to be in the

In the Atlantic World, millions of slaves were captured for working from Africa. The causes and effects of the African Slave Trade during the Atlantic World, were very influential in later history.

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.

Enslavement was a one of the horrors that the Africans endured to help them survive in a foreign area. The Africans did not have a choice becoming a slave thus acting like a piece of property for the people that would ensure that they would incriminate the people. Enslavement was a challenge to the black people that made it difficult for them to lead their normal lives because they were rooted from their families and dumped in a new country where they had to oblige to the commands of their owner. According to Equiano, “the Africans had to cross the Atlantic Ocean under the boats where they had confinements like animals unfit for human survival (1789)”. Numerous of them died on the way from diseases, hunger among other reasons and they would dump them into the sea leaving them there as food for the fishes which is inhumane. Slavery was difficult because it was not a voluntary act thus denying people the choice to make their independent decisions.

Europeans found the Americas or the New land in during 1492. Then the Europeans began to colonize, this led to the need for workers to build cities, farm, and other things. These workers were slaves from Africa that were forced into labor form losing a war or being conquered. During the 1550s to 1850s African Slavery was building the new world, slavery had catastrophic effects on the Native Americans and the Africans that were forced to sail the Atlantic Ocean and work for Europeans in the New World.