The Atlantic Slave Trade, Commerce Between Asia And The West And Connection Through Agriculture

With the European discovery of the New World, African slave trade began to grow. Slaves were traded and bought and then shipped to some other place and then sold. Europeans would trade things for slaves then bring them to places like the West Indies and sell them. They would then buy goods and bring the goods back to Europe. This was the triangular trade system. Slaves played a vital role in trade all over the world, old and new. Although African slavery had already existed, there were many reasons as to why it was needed during the Atlantic World and there were many effects of this.

[x] France for example has created New France in Canada and also down into Florida and Spain had a large portion of Mexico and Southern America. [xi] These new colonizes helped create trade between the New and Old World. Government ventures lended money for explorers to set forth and trade in the West and elsewhere.[xii] This also led to the role of mercantilism in the Atlantic as well. They helped promote overseas trade between a country and its own colonizes.[xiii] As they controlled more trade, different trading companies began to emerge in response to mercantilism. The Dutch West Indian Company and the royal African Company chartered by their motherlands all participated in a system which included other non- European countries as well. This system was known as the Atlantic Circuit which was a clockwise network of trading links that moved goods, wealth and people around the Atlantic system.[xiv] This helped make the slave trade more efficient because now a vast amount of slaves could be transported to their specific destinations as requested by a country. As document 8 shows, the slaves which came from Africa each followed a specific route in the Atlantic Circuit. [xv] tying in with document 4 the work that had to be done on the plantation was a lot and that is why with the help of city ports in Africa they were able to get a large number of slaves to help in the Americas. An example of the type of work they did can be

This week lesson was a little disturbing for me. I know about slavery and how it took place. Usually I could keep my composer when reading about slavery. However, this week looking at the trans-Atlantic slave trade voyages database website and how many different voyages took place was heartbreaking for me. Reading the total number of slaves from Africa and how they were transported to different landing locations. From adults to children taken from their homes and relocated to a strange place. I can only imagine the turmoil those people went through on the voyages. From being sick, hungry, and beaten. Millions of Africans having their freedom taken away from them. “Africans died during slave raids or on the way to the ports where slave ships

The rise of the Transatlantic Slave Trade started with the helpless souls of Africans. Many people of this time would classify slavery as a natural order, state, or fate. They believed that people were either born as a slave or would later become one because it was their predetermined destiny or fate. Later, world cultures regarded POW’s as a natural state. POW stands for Prisoners of War, and is defined as a person who is captured and held by an enemy during war, especially a member of the armed forces.

The Atlantic Slave Trade took place from the 16th century to the 19th century. Most of the slaves were taken from West Africa, but the trade also affected other parts of the continent. By the end of the trade, it became the biggest human migration to date. Generally, we know a lot about the effects slavery had in the New World, but we have less information on how the slave trade affected African societies. Although there were no scholars which contested the harm the slave trade caused, however, there is still debate over the effect of the trade within African societies. The debate over the impact on demography and economy still exist today. However, in this paper it is argued, mainly due to the growing contributions from African scholars and economists, that today historians are reaching a consensus that the slave trade caused long term effects on the demography, social structure and economy of African societies. In this paper, I will focus on how the trade impacted African communities in regards to demography, social structure, and economy, and I will demonstrate how the historiography in regards to these aspects has evolved to its present form.

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was developed by the existing system of slave trade in African Kingdoms. Demand and need for more slaves lead to active participation in obtaining slaves by African Kingdoms. “European explorers found slavery as a popular custom with advantages in many countries, which influenced Europe to make slavery a strong trade and monetary investment to its colonies. Therefore, in 1441 Europe started trading slaves in Africa.”

Did African's participate in the Atlantic Slave Trade as equal partners, or were they the victims of European power and greed?

Europeans were looking for a way to trade with china. During this time they managed to stumble across the americas. At first, europeans just used the americas for its resources. Later they realized they could take the land. After settling in the americas europeans needed slaves for many reasons. Portugal started the atlantic slave trade by shipping african slaves from their trading post in Africa. The Atlantic slave trade had many causes and effects during the Atlantic world which ends up changing the new world and the way it develops.

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 exchange started in 1444, when the Portuguese started to ship the slaves from West Africa to Europe. (Hardy, 2014) There were a few conditions and circumstances that prompted the ascent of the Atlantic Slave Trade. One fundamental driver of the exchange was the improvement of settlements in European nations. In America, for instance, being a province of England there was a vast interest for unpaid workers to give items like sugar, tobacco and cotton plantations for the generation of the Europe market. This is when the slaves came into play. Paying workers to produce sugar, tobacco and cotton plantations was not an option because the cost was to high to pay them. In addition, there was a lack of workers due to the decrease in the

Many historians will argue that the institution of enslaving Africans in European cultures was merely a commercial solution to an economic problem, not a result of racism. Slavery throughout history existing in the America and the New World has been mainly identified with “the Negro slave.” Although, the truth is that slaves of the New World were of all different religious denominations and ethnicities, not strictly African. In fact, in Spain, England, and France the largest demographic of slaves was Indian. Following the Indian was the poor white slave or indentured servant of European descent. White kidnapped slaves were sold and traded on ships to sail overseas to the West Indies. Among those kidnapped, convicts were a large source of white labor. It was up until civil unrest in England taking place between 1640 and 1740 that the supply of white labor would falter. White laborers created rivalries and rebellions against their own mother countries, where ideas of independence were rampant which proved to be difficult for owners to handle.

The Transatlantic time was actually the Atlantic slave trade that took place across the Atlantic Ocean from the 16th through the 19th centuries. The search for new trade routes, the rise of merchant capitalism, and the desire to exploit the potential of a global economy initiated the European age of discovery. European exploration and colonization frequently had disastrous results for the indigenous peoples.

The Trans-Atlantic slave occurred during the early sixteenth century and lasted until the beginning of the all the way to nineteenth century. It was during this time when the beginning of the Black Diaspora would begin to manifest itself with the exportation of millions of the African populace to the Americas. These African people were forced and taken from their respective countries in a horrific manner. The result, these people became the slaves of newly forming colonies in North America. The trek across the Atlantic Ocean, alone, is considered to be one of the most inhumane acts committed by the slave traders during the Diaspora.

In the book The World That Trade Created by Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik, the authors examine how trade has affected the world that we currently reside in today. With the help of seven chapters filled with various articles, the authors uncover how trade is interconnected with many other subjects such as economics, culture, and industrialization. The book examines trade from the New World with few references to the Old World with ties to all habitable continents. The book lets the reader get lost in history by showing how everything in interconnected in history.

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.