Summary: The Atlantic Slave Trade

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.

The two majors drivers that led to the transatlantic slave trade was the European desire for the agricultural products of the Americas and the need for laborers to work the land in the Americas. All participants, besides for the slaves, benefited from the trading.

The Atlantic Slave Trade was one of the worst events in the world. From the 16th century to the 19th century, a considerable number of slaves were captured and traded. During the 18th century, a surplus number of slaves were transported to the Americas, this is where the story begins. Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing introduces readers to two important characters, Esi and Quey. Esi is a fifteen-year-old girl who is a slave. Quey is the son a British soldier. Both characters story take place during the middle of the Atlantic Slave Trade to the end, highlighting the different perspectives they have during the Atlantic Slave Trade. Esi and Quey’s stories show violence in West Africa through different hierarchies leading to the capturing of select members; which caused an unproductive economy.

This paper will cover how the Trans-Atlantic slave trade was used to advance countries by trampling on others to gain the economic edge. The New world need to use this because of population growth, limits of sugar production to supply the new world with enough capital to thrive, and the long-standing practice of slavery already in Africa, slavery was introduced to America causing the African population to remain stagnant, economic and social relations were changed and traditional values were flipped. Throughout this paper, I will bring out the truths of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. This was a terrible part of human history which involved five major countries that ran the slave trade. The atrocity of slave trade cost the lives of 30 million

How does one start and ongoing tradition of racism in this world? For many years, foolish citizens around the world thought that the provocation of a different skin-colored race was encouraged and was accepted by society. Numerous people just saw Africa as the land where labour and goods were abundant, and dark-colored people were created for nothing but slave work. There was a fine line between humane and inhumane when it came to handling African people. The trafficking of slaves was such an extensive business during the 17th and 18th century. Not only was there the importing and exporting of slaves, but there was also other materials traded during the time. Goods such as cotton, tobacco, coffee, chocolate and so on were traded along

Olaudah Equiano’s story of his life provides an intellectual, historical, and emotional basis for the study of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. This autobiography discusses the plight experienced by Olaudah Equiano and his experience in the slave trade. Throughout his life, he collected information and stories about his own culture, upbringing, and of his experiences within the slave trade to inform the story of his life. He eventually wrote them all down for readers to absorb, comprehend, and appreciate. Additionally, his story is important for current scholarly work because the slave trade acts as an important aspect of history that shapes African society as well as current attitudes in all parts of the world. Olaudah Equiano expressed

From the 16th to 19th century, the Atlantic Slave trade was the transportation of 10-12 million enslaved people of African descent. This happened between Europe, Africa, and America, and these slaves were traded in for goods such as coffee, sugar and gold. The triangle trade was a trade between 3 regions in the Atlantic, those regions consists of Europe, West Africa, and America. Slavery was very different in Brazil than it was from the U.S. since Brazil had very harsh conditions causing higher death rate of slaves, and causing more of them to be transported to Brazil, in order to replace those that had died. Furthermore, the slave trade consisted of people of the African the descent and were treated as objects and merchandise; only to be bought and sold at auctions, or be traded in for goods, such as rum, alcohol,

The Atlantic slave trade had a negative effect on Africa because, it ruined the economy by draining them of their resources, caused a major plummet in the population of West Africa, and caused greed among the community.

Edward Long justified slavery in 1774 by arguing that black Africans’ “narrow intellect” and “bestial smell” implied that they might almost be of a different species.

By the 17th century, the Atlantic slave trade has already bought millions of Africans to the new world to work as forced laborers in South America, the Caribbean and now the North American colonies. Conditions in the Caribbean and Latin America was different from the infancy of the British colonies. One of the main reasons being the idea of who should be enslaved. In Latin America, Spanish colonist believes people should be enslaved by their faith or someone of war captive status. However, in North America at the time, their main focus was an anti-Catholicism, so they view converting blacks into Protestantism rather than enslaving them. But the momentum didn't last long and the Dutch and British colonies started to enslave Africans to work

According to Ugboajah “Trade across the Atlantic began in the 15th century as the direct result of the pioneering exploration of Africa financed by Henry the Navigator of Portugal.” (p.107) gold, ivory, dyewoods, gum, pepper, sugar, leather, bees-wax, coffee and a few commodities like palm oil where some of what was exported from Africa during the Trans-Atlantic trade. This also allowed Africa to receive materials back from the Europeans that included cloths, guns, gunpowder, hardware, salt, gin, rum, brandy, beads, cowries, iron bars, copper bars, and manilas. This trans-Atlantic trade also had some negative impacts on Africa, the negative impact of slave trade across the sea, this can be seen as one of the most corruptive influence in the

I love reading, but this book is not my usual choice of recreational fun. I was dreading having to read it. But I can say that after studying this narrative, it has opened my eyes about early slavery and especially the Atlantic slave trade. In the self-written life story The Interesting Narrative of Oladah Equiano, we get a close up look at what slavery and the Atlantic slave trade were actually like for those sold into slavery. I believe this book has great historical significance when it comes to studying slavery during the late 1700s for many reasons. For one, Equiano’s description of his early life in Africa informs us that the Africans were enslaving people just as the white man was, and it gives us insight on how African slavery differed from the harsher slavery on the plantations in the Americas. Equiano’s narrative also gives us the gruesome details of what life was like for those who were passengers in the slave trade across the Atlantic. His detailed description of his journey across the Atlantic Ocean helps us to understand what it was like for the prisoners and not just what the white men told about what happened on those ships. And finally, through Oladah’s story we learn how hard it was for a slave to become a free man. Equiano struggles with that very task, and it is because he becomes a decent sailor that he is able to make enough money to buy his own freedom from his master Robert King.

The atlantic slave trade also known as the Transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved african people, mainly from africa to the americas,and then their sale there. The slave trade used mainly the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage. existed from 16th to the 19th centuries.The development of colonies created by European countries is one of the main causes of the trade. There was a demand for many labourers for the sugar, tobacco, and cotton plantations in America.The reason why they didn't just hire people , is because paid labor was too expensive, and indigenous people had been largely wiped out by disease and conflict, for this reason the colonies turned to Africa to provide cheap labour in the form of slaves.

Topic: The historical subject addressed in the film, Amistad, is the atlantic slave trade. Although Britain outlawed the transatlantic slave trade in the 1807, it endured for nearly sixty years illegally after its abolition. Especially among countries like Portugal and Spain who held colonies in South America and the Caribbean which were used for the production of labor intensive cash crops such as sugar, and heavily relied on the manual labor provided by slaves. Working conditions in South America and in the Caribbean were so terrible that the average life expectancy of a slave was twenty-three years. In the United States, however, working conditions were much more favorable. As a result, slave populations were able to increase naturally, this explains why the number of imported slaves from Africa to the United States was incredibly small, and also why the majority of slaves were imported from Africa to the Caribbean and South America. The atlantic slave trade endured nor nearly three centuries, and brought over ten million Africans to the Americas. Many African kings enriched their realms through the atlantic slave trade. However, the constant need for slaves among European nations fostered competition among neighboring kingdoms. This created warfare, and slaves became the motivation for war. For kingdoms to protect themselves from slave raids they needed European weapons, which was one of the main commodities Europeans traded with African kings and merchants for slaves.

Although the Atlantic Slave Trade (AST, hereafter) enabled a European-dominated international economy to mobilize, diversify, and prosper for centuries; the indigenous populations enslaved to put in the labor to produce assets for said economy experienced a radical change of life, unfathomable turmoil and grief, and in the most wicked cases, as did their offspring. The parameters of this paper will be restricted to: the development of the AST (from its nascence to its peak), the economic implications and advancements, and the ethical conversation that was birthed from such a monstrous phenomenon.