The African Textile Industry

Do you think that English textile factories were bad for the health of working class families. Use evidence from at least two of the documents to support your claim.

Slaves were bought and sold in many places, mostly for laboring farm land. In the Atlantic world during the 1500's and 1600’s there were many causes and effects to African slave trade. Many Europeans needed slaves to labor on their lands.

Africa’s trade networks experienced many continuities, in their culture, and changes, in their trade economics, from 1000 C.E. to 1750 C.E.

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.

In Basil Davidson’s video “Different but Equal,” he outlines the European perception of Africa upon their discovery of the continent. Claims that the Europeans were making about African culture, however, were far fetched and did not depict Africa in a positive manner. History according to pre-European Africa was rich and diverse, but once Europeans saw for themselves how different their continent was from Africa, they began to make up their own version of African history.

The slave trade in the North American colonies began to grow in the 1600s. The African slave trade sourced their slaves from many different West African villages and countries. The business of slavery was a growing and profitable field, not only for the slavers, but also for the slaveholders. With the decrease of indentured servants, settlers in the English colonies looked for a new source of labor to satisfy their growing labor demands. The next source was Africa. “By the 1690s slaves outnumbered indentured servants four to one” (45). Europeans largely disregarded the ethical dilemma posed by slavery due to the European view of Africans and their culture as uncivilized, foreign, and heathen (44). The largest forced migration in history (44)

In the 19th century, America saw major expansions and technological advances that paved way for the grand expansion of agriculture that boosted the nation’s economy. Regardless of the fact that Great Britain had tried to keep secrets regarding machinery and inventions, most of America’s advances were propelled by inventions such as the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793, steel plow by John Deere, railway, steamboats, telegraph, and canals. In addition, technology’s profound effect on agriculture also led to the rise of the textile industry whereby factories produced materials such as cotton thread and cloth. Many of these initial factories are recognized in historical texts, but the Lowell factory system is one that is famous – precisely the

Both power and relationships are revealed in dress, uniform and costumes” (p.349). Clothing can bind a community together by wearing similar garments. Zitkala-Sa uses clothing to indicate the relationship she has with her tribe so when she is forced to remove them, she loses a part of her family as well.

Trade is one of the key necessities to building a prosperous empire. This is shown through the empires located in Africa, the Middle East, and in China. Trade causes either negative or positive effects based on what is being traded or who it affects. There are many circumstances that can affect the trade outcome, such as location. Trade is very important to most kingdoms because it causes a good economy and government.

Over the course of the history of clothing styles and production, one thing has never changed: a person’s wealth directly influences

In his travel log, it says, “The Bedawin Arabs of Darfur and Wadai are abundantly supplied with everything necessary to support life. They Derive from Darfur or Wadai only a little millet, some maize, and articles of costume. In exchange for these, they sell their surplus of butter, honey, cattle, skins…”. This explicitly disproves John Iliffe’s thought about Africa being inferior in its environment. Africans efficiently produced possible resources from their inhabited regions and traded among others for further necessary goods. Although Africa may have inferior soil, compare to other continents trades enabled African inhabitants to sustain healthy lives even when compared to those of any other regions. Therefore, these great amounts of trades in Africa disprove John Iliffe’s view of African’s lifestyle being

Analyze the impacts of interregional trade in either Africa or the Americas during the period 600 BCE - 1200 CE.

For 300 years, roughly 1500 and 1800, European nations had an unquestionable presence on the west coast of Africa with the main focus on trade, specifically for slaves, gold, and ivory. However, their explorations were limited. This quickly changed as the 1800's came into full swing. European explorers quickly took advantage of the situation, and made their way into the interiors of western and central Africa. By the 1880's Europeans were in a struggle with neighboring countries for control of the continent. This problem was deemed one that needed a solution, and one quickly arose. The solution came in the form of the Berlin Conference. The Berlin Conference was a conference held in Berlin to divide up Africa in a peaceful manner, in order

The period of 3500BCE and 1000BCE was a time of diffusion, conquest, change, and new civilizations. In Northern and Eastern Africa there was clearly a cultural diffusion but not to worry some didn’t change but continued on for the time being. To understand more about Northern and Eastern Africa, we should ask ourselves what were some cultural diffusion and continuities in Northern and Eastern Africa. Between 3500BCE-1000BCE the writing of pictogram and concept of afterlife continued, while polytheistic belief became monotheistic for a short period of time and shields, daggers, and bows became chariot, iron, and composite bows.

naturalistic shapes were combined to represent a recognizable human face. As part of the daily ritualistic routine, families would often present offerings to cult figures, full-body images kept in homes as insurance of protection. The decorative arts, especially in textiles and in the ornamentation of everyday tools, were a vital art in nearly all African cultures. Wood was one of the most frequently used materials—often embellished by clay, shells, beads, ivory, metal, feathers, and shredded raffia.