Slavery And The Red Sea

For over 2,000 years, slavery has been conducted in various parts of the world. From year 1500 to year 1900, Europeans stole individuals from West Africa, West Central Africa, and Southeast Africa and shipped them to the different parts of the Atlantic. This process dehumanized them of their identity. Europeans stole husbands, wives, merchants, blacksmiths, farmers, and even children. They removed them from their homelands and gave them new names: slaves. European slaveholders never thought to take ownership of their actions by killing humans with brutality and degradation. Slave trade was considered popular in England and soon after more countries began the process of taking slaves to newly claimed territories. These countries include

Slavery in the Americas was the action of human imprisonment, where all rights and freedoms were taken, that lasted over a thousand year. It was brutal and affected many people. The Arab slave trade was a major part of the imprisonment also and the beginning of slavery which started in 700 AD (1). The Arab Slave Trade was the practice of capturing and selling slaves in the “Arab World”. Since the Arabs controlled the sea routes it was easy for them to transport and trade. The Arab traders captured Africans known as “Bantu”. Then these Africans were sold throughout the Middle East.

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.

In discussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade, the term “Middle Passage” often arises. The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic Slave trade. The journey was one of the most horrific aspects of the morally deplorable system of slavery. Death was a constant threat as diseases, starvation, asphyxiation and severe depression rampantly claimed the lives of African and the ship’s crew. Throughout this essay you will understand the tragic journey of the slaves and what hardships they had to go through.

For slaves the transition to the New World was at times isolating and difficult. There were rotten, terrifying, and sometimes inhumane experiences that the slaves’ experienced as they transitioned to the New World. Slaves dealt with loneliness when their families were separated because they were sold or because of situations where the owners were controlling their lives.

From the moment of capture, African men, women and children endured a relentless chain of pain and abuse. Life onboard the slave ships became a constant battle for survival, as the gruesome conditions below the deck presented formidable physical health problems. Burnside describes the African slaves descent into hell:

Slavery has been a key issue in American history since the first settlers settled here in 1607. Historians such as Vincent J Rosivach writes that when the issue of slavery is mentioned the first thing people think about is the slavery model of the deep south, the cotton kingdom. Rosivach writes that there were many different slave models such as the northern American colonies and 4th century Athens. Rosivach and many other historians agree that the way slavery was done in the north was totally different from the south. Slaves have had an important role particularly in the northern American colonies helping them early establish themselves first as a region then as a country. Historians have argued that America was built on the backs of

Slavery, was an institution strongly integrated into American society. This economic system was primarily used in the Southern states of the United State on the plantation areas where tobacco, rice, corn, and eventually cotton were grown. Inspirations of freedom and liberty spread throughout the United States prior to the American Revolution. Along with thoughts of liberty came thoughts of emancipation of this system. “Even after the prolonged battle for independence, when cries for liberty rang throughout the countryside, opportunities for both emancipation and free blacks diminished.” Slavery stilled had a strong hold of the foundations of the southern economy. The “peculiar system” continued to grow rapidly, especially at the beginning of the nineteenth century, within the United States. Slavery, was an injustice to both male and female slaves however, women would endure more physical and emotional injustices than men by the means of themselves and their children.

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

More space may have been committed to the issue that hung over everything subjugation and how it impacted Davis' charge. There is a short exchange of Davis' reaction to the Emancipation Proclamation and the enrollment of previous slave fighters into Union positions (he named it "the most repulsive measure recorded ever" and debilitated to have dark troops and their officers executed if caught in fight) and a fairly more full thought of whether the Confederates themselves should enroll their slaves (Davis bolstered it if all else fails). However it would have been useful to take in more about the effect of slave resistance behind the lines or how the requests of battling to ensure a slave society offered shape to the flow of command.In the end,

If any American today were to be asked to describe the word “slavery”, they would probably describe to you the a time were African America people were enslaved in the south do engage in free labor and harsh conditions. But slavery is much deeper and much more impactful than most realize. Slavery was not just an idea or a set period in time; slavery was an evil spirit that was infiltrated throughout human history from the beginning of time. Nations like the United States have used slavery to their advantage not understanding the true immoral reality of their actions. More specifically in the Old South, black antebellum southerners were oppressed physically and emotionally every day that they were under this system.

As a society changes and develops, so do its beliefs and ideals. Freedom and liberty are concepts that are constantly changing, and the American Revolution brought upon major changes to their definitions in the colonies. Two major changes of beliefs were in the concept of slavery and also the roles of women in society.

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.

This essay will review the issue of slavery and war in the documentary "Death and the Civil War" and the films "12 Years a Slave" and "Lincoln".  The essay will look at the impact the Civil War had on the American people as a result of the unexpected number of casualties and the federal government’s response to address this concern. Second, it will discuss of effect of slavery on a freed African American and the treatment endured during his enslavement. Lastly, it will discuss Abraham Lincoln's reason for and challenges faced with having the Thirteenth Amendment ratified.

The most difficult feature of the transatlantic trade, was the preeminent notion of death, both by the idealism of the Africans and the logistics known by the Europeans. The departure from the coast signified a loss and disconnect between the people who would lose their life to the voyage and their already deceased ancestors. Not being buried properly was indicative of a loss of after-life spiritual fortitude. “Death without a funeral compromised the journey to a new realm,” writes Smallwood in Saltwater Slavery.