The Decline Of The Slave Trade

Slavery in the atlantic world become associated with Africans because the demand for strong African slaves to work on sugar plantations increased after the Native American population dwindled due to European diseases. Slavery was already a traditional part of the African society so trading with the Europeans was not a new concept.

While African slave trading was not uncommon in Africa, when Americas was established the Europeans knew they needed cheap labor to work there plantations and mines. Europeans was always interested in trades in the African nations, so in the fifteenth and sixteenth century the Europeans traders started to get involved in the slave trade. Portugal was the first European country to start the transatlantic slave trade. People were kidnapped and enslaved an taken from West Africa and taken to Europe and America to be trade or sold for raw materials and goods.Slaves were packed on a ship on a long journey to America,an there journey was not an easy one. While upon the ship the slaves lived in dreadful conditions some slaves became sick and

This was then known as the triangular slave trade as Europeans sailed to Africa to buy slaves and then shipped them to the Americas to work in the plantations. Brutality

“In this situation I expected every hour to share the fate of my companions, some of whom were almost daily brought upon deck at the point of death, which I began to hope would soon put an end to my miseries.”(Equiano). Olaudah Equiano’s first hand experience of being kidnapped, as a child in Africa, is a poignant accounting of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. This era and actions of the slavers, which we now view as “Crimes against Humanity,” lasted approximately 400 years from the 16th to 19th century (Smallwood). Many have called this forced exodus of 12-15 million African men, women, and children as a dark time where profits came at the cost of human suffering. As Equiano and many historians detailed, the abduction of Africans occurred mostly in West Africa, the region from Senegal to Angola. The three-legged trade route spanned many continents and areas from Europe, Africa, the Atlantic, the Caribbean, and South America. There were many who profited from the Triangular Slave Trade, from Africans, Portuguese, Dutch, English, and French. Many have surmised that profitability in the industries involved and the economies of the European empires relied heavily on the output of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The European colonial empires would typically to trade with Africans for gold, ivory, spices, and enslaved Africans. The slavers would then travel to the Americas and the Caribbean, in what was known as the Middle Passage, the horrific journey where, “millions of enslaved

In the 1600s, slavery played a significant role in European history. The negative aspects that made up the dark times in history are, mainly centered on the brutalizing effects of the enslaved people, which can be best explained by the destroyed family bonds, history of the enslaved people erased, and unjust treatment of the slaves. Olaudah Equiano, a former slave and abolitionist, was born in 1745, part of the Igbo tribe. He served as a slave for many years all over the world, until he bought out his freedom in 1767. After that, he pushed for the abolition of the slave trade and civil rights until the end of his life.

The slave trade route between Africa and North America was known as the Middle Passage. From the early 1500s to the mid-1900s Africans were treated poorly and had suffered greatly from the journey of the Middle Passage. The Middle Passage first started out by shipping four hundred fifty thousand people to the New World and then extended to almost thirteen million Africans. Africans were boarded onto ships to the New World in two major locations in Africa in which are Angola and Gabon. An outrageous number of Africans were taken to the new World from Angola. Five hundred million and four hundred ninety thousand kidnapped Africans from Angola were on ships traveling to North America and parts of the Caribbean’s in which then were sold as

It was the British that developed the Atlantic slave system known as the ‘Triangular Trade’. African and Arab slave traders brought slaves to slave markets on the West African coast. They would then be bought by European slave traders. These slave traders bought goods from Europe which exchanged for the slaves. The slaves were then transported to the Americas on a journey known as the ‘Middle Passage’. Between 1700 and 1807, around 12 million Africans were transported across the Atlantic. Roughly 15% of those transported died on the journey. The conditions on board the slave ships were horrific. Throughout the journey the slaves were chained together by their hands and feet and they were often kept below deck in the dark. In 1788, a slave ship called ‘The Brookes’ was carrying over 600 slaves from Africa to America. This was despite the fact that the ship was designed to carry only 451 passengers.

The Atlantic slave trade was mainly happening between Brazil, Europe, Americas, and also Africa. Need for workers in the Americas raises demands for enslaved Africans; So the Europeans went off to Africa to bring Africans to the Americas, Europe, and Brazil. Africans withstand got diseases, have farming skills, and they were unlikely to escape. I think that the Atlantic slave trade was mainly caused by people needing workers, because the Americas and many other places needed workers to do their farming,“cleaning, and more. Some causes of it was that the Africans got split from their families, friends, their freedom, and the cultural differences. Even though when Africans came over to America they kept,

For roughly two centuries, millions of Africans were transported against their will to the New World to work in excruciating labor and withstand harsh conditions. Inhuman Traffick exceeds at indicating the revolutionary effects that would follow the end of slave trade on European countries. In order to understand this concept, it is crucial to note the changes European society went through during the abolitionist movements and the ending of slavery. Industrialization also attributes to the many of the changes Europe would be under following the ending of slavery. The last point to keep in mind is the events that transpired in the seizure of Neirsee and how it impacted society.

The history of the slave trade is one that most people would want to forget. Though, forgetting such an important era in the history of the world is not only wrong but a recipe for repeating other such mistakes. According to Capone (2007), more than 11 million Africans were taken to the New World in the period between the 16th and mid-19th centuries. More than any other colony in the Americas: Brazil received the largest portion of the slaves. The Brazilian coastline was especially a major hosting ground for the new Africans who were arriving from the western African states including Bight of Benin, Senegambia, Bight of Biafra, as well as other regions in West Central Africa. The huge number of Africans would over the years dominate the

Through the transportation use of the asientistas, the slave trade was constantly changing and integrated with the whole Atlantic economy. From 1595 to 1773, a total of 648,688 slaves, or an annual average of 3,381 slaves every year for the 178 years of trade. However, as with many economic understandings and studies changes are more important than the totals. Therefore, the changing sources of supply and destinations are of more importance. With Spanish records, the Guinea of Cape Verde and the region just south of Congo mouth were the main sources of slaves arriving to Spanish-America.

Later the Dutch, English and French merchants controlled about half of the transatlantic slave trade in the regions of West Africa between the Senegal and Niger Rivers. The European sailors establish a system of navigation that bound Europe, Africa, and the Americas for a network of commerce. The transatlantic slave trade was based on kidnapping and abduction as a major method of slave acquisition and it was also used as a system of great opportunity to hold wealth, political and economic control. Many of the enslave Africans went through a lot of horrors and inhumane treatment during the middle passage in which they were sold for very low prices.

Slavery was accepted and recognized all around the world. During the sixteenth to nineteenth century, many european colonies engaged in the slave trade and the Atlantic slave trade. Roughly twelve million African slaves were transported across the Atlantic from the early sixteenth century to the 1860’s. Britain became the largest slave provider, 3.1 million slaves were transported, but only 2.7 survived. The government of Great Britain banned slave ships from engaging in the slave trade because they believed it was not morally correct or morally right to have slaves. Walvin argues that the British played a major and involuntary role in bringing an end to the slave trade. He also believes if the British were not the initiators for the slave

From the 16th to the 19th century, somewhere between 10 to 12 million imprisoned Africans were transported across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. Most of the Africans kidnapped did not begin as slaves in Africa. These people were not only shipped across the seas with each other, but also had to sail with different goods being traded such as textiles, wine, and arms. The sailing portion of this process was stage two of three in a trading system called the triangular trade. How the triangular trade worked was that the arms, wine, and textiles would go from Europe to Africa, then slaves from Africa would go to the Americas and more wanted goods such as sugar and coffee would go from the Americas to Europe.

The Atlantic Slave Trade took place subsequently to the breakthrough discovery of the New World, also acknowledged today as North and South America. The Trade established a global exchange or Triangular trade between the Americas, Europe and Africa. The exchange between the Old and New world occurred to satisfy the enormous European demands for African labor on the plantations and for the colonization across the newly uncovered land. Prior to the Atlantic Slave Trade, Slavery had stood alive and thriving for centuries, leaving places like Africa with an immeasurable loss of human population. One stage of the Triangular slave trade was the Middle Passage, where millions of purchased and abducted Africans were transported to America being exchanged for other marketed possessions. The Zong vcvv was one of the several slave ships to travel the middle passage, leaving behind over a hundred deceased living beings and several court appearances. The abolition of the slavery in America did not begin until the eighteenth century, almost two hundred years following. Amongst the immeasurable tragedies that transpired to Africans during the middle passage, the executions and outcomes of the Zong ship massacre became one of the most influential catalysts for pushing forward the abolition of slavery, remaining one of the most dishonorable and narcissistic occurrences to ever strike by exposing the immense atrocities of the middle passage and Trans-Atlantic slave trade of the late 1700’s.