The Age Of Exploration And European Colonization

Social Upheaval and Low Self Worth was another one of the major impacts of the European commercial activities on West Africa. As a result of the slave trade through raids and trade, there is no doubt concerning the social ills that plagued Western Africa. Many Africans were betrayed by their own political leaders

7. The Age of Exploration had a long-lasting effect on Africa and the Americas. Europeans were initially interested in finding alternate trade routes to Asia because the Ottoman Empire had monopolized the routes that had been used in the past. The Americas were discovered on accident, but shortly afterwards Europeans began to colonize the continent. As a result, Native Americans suffered as well as Africans who were later exploited during the Atlantic slave trade.

Also, there were too many Africans going to the mericas by the middle passage. On their terrible journey they were living on unsanitary condition and seeing their love ones get thrown overboard. While that was happening the colonist on the Americas were either doing two things. The first one was practice genocide and the second one was there were getting removed from their lands. They both suffered but at the end the Natives population reduced and the African slaves were more skilled and the colonist wanted

Leading up to the Age of Exploration, the Renaissance brought along many new and useful inventions, like compasses, triangular sails, and ships with large cargo holds, to make exploration easier. With all of these new inventions, along with God, Gold, and Glory, people wanted to explore the world, therefore starting the Age of Exploration. The Age of Exploration was more negative than positive, although it had both negative and positive impacts on the indigenous cultures of the Americas, Europe, and Africa. First, trade during the Age of Exploration was almost equally positive and negative, but it leaned towards the latter. Second, the religious side of the Age of Exploration was pretty much equally positive and negative. Finally, slavery

The time period Europeans started to develop officially began in the 15th century and lasted through the 16th century. This period of time symbolizes the time of exploration when Europeans started to explore around the world by land in search of new trading routes, wealth, and knowledge. Many nations were in search of goods, however, the spark for exploration was the curiosity of the new routes for spice and silk exchanges. The impact of the Europeans development would affect the society permanently in the future. Therefore, religion was not the most important factor leading Europe to explore in the 15th and 16th centuries. Instead economics was the most important reason followed by religion and technological advances.

Slavery is a lethal poison. 3.9 million African Americans were enslaved in 1860. Frederick Douglass, the author of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, was a victim of slavery. His narrative encapsulates the pernicious effects of slavery, and his journey to freedom. Douglass’s narrative vividly elucidates the cruel institution of slavery; the stories of the slave’s agony provokes feelings of sorrow from the reader. In particular, Douglass utilizes motif and diction in his narrative, Douglass reveals a critical theme that reverberates in today’s society: slavery is an exercise of irresponsible power.

Undoubtedly, the exploitation of African slaves have a profound effect in the New World. It

Enslaved laborers in British North America resisted their subjugation in a variety of ways. Although the Europeans felt as though the slaves had no sense of culture or any sense of originality, they very much had their own culture which they tried to maintain here in North America. They challenged their masters and overseers by refusing to work, breaking tools, feigning illness, and other means of disputing whites’ authority. When the slaves tried to resist order there were consequences put in to place such as whippings and beating to ensure that they wouldn’t try to disrespect the owner of the plantation ever again.(Source: pg. 87;left column; last

According to J.A Hobson, “The white rulers of the colonies live at the expense of the natives” (Hobson 1965). This illustrates that the natives were exploited from imperialism. This is bad because taking advantage of people is an immoral thing to do, and the Africans do not deserve to work for someone else as slaves. Moreover, imperialism only brought trouble for the natives and they would have been better off if it had never occurred. The natives were also stripped of their natural rights. According to Paul Halsall, “Whereas fundamental human rights…are denied to the African through the activities of Imperialists” (Halsall 1998). This shows that not only did the Africans had to toil for the Europeans, but they were not even treated as human beings. Such terrible mistreatment cannot go unpunished. The natives were humans but the Europeans could not recognize that, which is why imperialism was an evil that plagued

Migration to the Americas were recalled through the narratives and essays of voyagers and slaves themselves. Thomas Philip, a European explorer, and Job, a wrongfully captured slave, discussed their particular but somehow similar perspectives and experiences on their migration to the Americas. In addition to their stories, Allison Games provided insight on the understanding of slavery and how they attempted to preserve their culture in the Americas while forced into slavery. Through the essays of Philip, Job and Games, the reader can understand that African migration was a wearisome experience, in which the slaves endured little control of their lives, lived in diseased environments, followed gender and age structures for labor, and adapted to new cultures and languages in order to survive not only on their trip to the Americas- but for their future there.

The indigenous people of Africa suffered many setbacks, when the Europeans arrived. When the Europeans arrived in Africa they made the indigenous people feel inferior, lack self-confidence, and be stripped of their responsibility. As shown by Document 2, when it says, “...convince us that our civilization was nothing less than savagery, thus giving us complexes which led to our being branded as irresponsible and lacking in self-confidence.” Some people may agree, that this seems like something out of a genocide. Originally the indigenous people of Africa were supposed to be cheap labor. However, this soon changed when the Europeans enslaved the African people. This is portrayed in Document 6, when it says, “...Beneath the noonday sun, My brother was strong…” By doing this they stole all of the human rights from the Africans, who had done nothing wrong. This is shown in Document 3, when it says, “Whereas fundamental human rights...are denied to Africans.” During this extremely horrific time in African history men were worked to death, and women were raped. This is found in Document 6, when it says,”The White Man killed my father,My father was proud, The White Man seduced my mother, My mother was beautiful.” This shows the negative effects are much worse for the Africans, than for the Europeans. But, there are some positives in this dark hour. When the Europeans arrived in Africa, they provided the

Like many others demoralized cultures during the Atlantic Slave trade period, Africans fell victim to the sixteenth century discovery of Columbus' so called "New World." Europeans used the Atlantic Slave Trade to capitalize on Columbus' so called "Discovery." For more than three centuries, the regions of Africa were in a state of destabilization. More than thirty million Africans were taken out of Africa and put in the Americas and surrounding countries.

The Transatlantic slave trade was a horrible time for the world and human race as a whole. Men in power took advantage of war to strip africa of millions of its people for their own benefits. These slave owners stripped millions of Africans of their rights and pride to make an exuberant amount of money. This act of villainy was only possible because of the cooperation of people globally. Even worse is the fact that at least a quarter of the slaves taken from africa where children. The role of children in the Atlantic slave trade during the 18th and 19th centuries was a cruel part of slavery because they were easily accessible,easy to influence,and they lasted longer as slaves than their elders.

Slavery was intense and the conditions were alarming. The British had a false sense of view on Africa, they believed them to be barbarians with no civilization. As Wilberforce states, “That is just emerging from barbarism, if a trade in men is established, if her [Africa] men are all converted into goods and become commodities that can be bartered, it follows, they must be subject to ravage just as goods are” (Wilberforce web). They were seen as nonhuman, but just an object that can be treated as cargo. Having been ripped from their country to be thrown to the bottom of a ship, chained and squeezed together with barely enough room to breathe. “The truth is, that for the sake of exercise, these miserable wretches, loaded with chains, oppressed with disease and wretchedness, are forced to dance by the terror of the lash, and sometimes by the actual use of it” (Wilberforce web). Wilberforce tells the people the truth of how these slaves are treated, showing the real terror of what they go through. “They were 'chattels', to be worked to death as it was cheaper to purchase another slave than to keep one alive,” millions of men, women, and children died because of the circumstances they had to deal with and Wilberforce helped put a stop to it (Sherwood web). His actions were done with courage and compassion because he cared enough to want to stop the Slave Trade. Having done it through civil

On the other side he discovered a vast body of water that he named "South