The Journey Across The Atlantic Slave Trade

The aftermath of the Atlantic Slave Trade included the commercialization of African economies and the solidification of European colonization and colonialism. Describe this commercialization and its subsequent effects.

The Atlantic Slave Trade was a very important time in history. When the records of the Atlantic slave Trade are reflected upon ,the impacts of the shipboards revolts are often times overseen .Although these revolts did have an immense effect on the political, views of the Slave trade. Richardson’s “shipboard revolts,African Authority,and the Atlantic slave trade”. brings into view the fluctuating causes and effects of shore based, and shipboard insurrection . Because of Richardson occupation it grants him reliability to all of his claims and supports his opinions His profession of studying economics and international ,offers him a profusion amount of education in the countries which were involved in the Atlantic Slave Trade. Richardson expose the indispensable impacts of shipboard revolts , African Leadership on the Atlantic slave trade, the author accomplishes this by painting out the causes an effects of each specific revolt an also by exposing the progress.

In general, the Atlantic Slave trade was very significant event in American History because the millions of lives it affected from the slaves to the Americans. In short, the Atlantic slave trade were established in the sixteenth century by Spanish colonists who had become the most experience sea mariners during that time (Robin, Kelley & Lewis, 2005, p. 7). Furthermore, in our reading the author touches on the fact that before Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World, that the Spaniards were already holding Muslims, black Africans, Slavs, and their own kind as slaves (Robin, Kelley & Lewis, 2005, p. 7). In viewing the Atlantic slave trade, this system separated millions of families from each other and shift the human population balance.

Comparing characters, from two different passages, makes it easier to understand the passage more. In the passage, "An Account from the Slave Trade: Love Story of Jeffrey and Dorcas", it talks about Jeffrey, a slave, who want his beloved Dorcas to be bought by his master. The second passage,"Wesley Harris: An Account of Escaping Slavery", it about Wesley Harris and his goal to run away to Gettysburg. These two main characters, Jeffrey and Harris, have a lot of characteristics in common and multiple characteristics that are completely different.

African civilizations lived within their own family groups. The Africans and Europeans already established trade and routes among themselves prior to the evolution of the New World. The trading of slaves started when the Europeans recognized that they Africans were beneficial in areas of trade, labor and artistic.

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

Furthermore, through the use of Manila Galleons, heavily armed ships were able to transport luxury good to Mexico using the Pacific Ocean between Manila in the Philippians. In addition, since some Europeans were working on plantations in the new world, they needed slaves to work on their plantation ns and through that idea, the uses of slaves began to be in effect which is called the trans-Atlantic slave trade. In addition, when the Spanish conquerors where coming in numbers from Spain and due to their numbers, most men carried different diseases on their ship to the new land which infected the other man on the land of the new world. This epidemic disease lead to the death of many people which I impacted the other people from Africa and Asia.

lavery first enters human history with the dawn of civilization. The most primitive hunter-gatherer peoples had no economic advantage by owning another individual. Only once humans began to gather in centralized communities with a surplus of food, they could reap the benefits of cheap labour. Slavery can be found in historical records dating back to even the earliest civilizations. The Code of Hammurabi details the oldest confirmed use of slavery in the 18th century B.C.E. (Fage 1969, 394). With such incredible longevity, it was inevitable that the institution of slavery would find its way to the new world. The Atlantic Slave trade can be divided into two eras. The first era of the Atlantic slave trade began on significant scale in 1502, with the Southern American Portuguese and Spanish colonies accounting for the majority of slave imports. Soon, the British, French and Dutch began to abduct people from Africa for the purpose of forming slave populations in the New World. This was the second era of the Atlantic slave trade and accounted for 97% of the total volume of the Atlantic Slave trade, with over 50% of imports occurring in the 18th century (Fage 1969, 396).

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

Other risks that affected the slave trade voyage, indirectly to investors while directly to the ship owner, captain and others aboard included natural disasters due to weather and navigation, attacks by pirates or competing trading countries, slave rebellions, and diseases as mentioned before. The weather and natural disasters is not widely cited as a great risk to these voyages. Nonetheless, it is imperative in the analysis if we are trying to capture a complete picture of the supply line of slaves to the colonies. At the very start of the trade in 1514, voyages only crossed the Southern Atlantic Ocean, but as the trade grew by 1650, and slaves started to be shipped to North America and some to Europe, as shown in figure 2, captains also had to face the rough conditions that came with sailing the northern Atlantic Ocean (Slave voyages, 2014)

The African Americans were sent from Africa to America. The slaves were captured at their homeland and sold to people and then brought on ships to America and were auctioned to the highest byer. The slave's journey to America was very complicated and some of them died before they even got here. The slaves were sent on the Middle Passage, while they were on the middle passage they would be crowded onto a ship, there was so many people that some of them suffocated on a ship.Once they got here they would be sold and off to their owners and would have different working positions a there was maids .They already new how to plant and grow some things and introduced new plants America. The slaves put the African culture here and is still here today.

European colonist employed various forms of coerced labor on slaves to develop North America because of their desire for profit, the drive for land, and the need of labor. Slavery and servitude started playing a role in the development of the North American colonies In the 1490s when Columbus started exploring new lands. When Columbus found the new lands, he brought back things such as plants, minerals, golds, and the people who inhabited the land. He would kidnap the people and inslave them. He would do this to make a point that the land really existed and he had humans to prove it. In these new lands, there was a drive for mineral wealth. The colonist would accomplish this through slave labor. Most of the slaves who worked would literally be worked to death, therefore creating a need for more slaves. So, Columbus started bringing slaved africans to do the job as well. This really lead to the beginning of the atlantic slave trade.

The demand of commerce, goods, and wealth during the 18th century proliferated the Atlantic Slave Trade. Slave labor arose as the vital machinery that fueled the commercial enterprise of the European nations, making it the primary focus of European slave traders. Therefore, the facile access and opportunity of procuring human labor from the West Coast of Africa allowed this region to obtain a prominent stature among the Europeans. Accelerating Africa’s prominence in the Atlantic Slave Trade were its natives who, in pursuing the wealth and goods of the Europeans, readily participated in the practice of capturing other Africans and selling them as slaves on the Western Coast of the continent. Two West African regions contributing to the massive slave trade were the Bight of Biafra and Bight of Benin. Though these two regions lie in close proximity to each other, varying attributes concerning the structure of the slave trade can be assigned to each area. Such characteristics include the conducting of the trade by middlemen in response to the arrangement of each region’s governance, the means by which middlemen acquire slaves in each region, and the mortality rates of each area.

African slaves throughout The Trans-Atlantic Slave trade were treated with the utmost disrespect. Furthermore, when the slaves were transported to the New Worlds (current day United States) they were auctioned off to their future owner and from there the slaves would spend the remainder of their life working on plantations or mines in cruel conditions. The majority of the enslaved Africans would be taken to the southern states in the United States. This was because the southern states approved of slavery while the northern states did at first, but soon abolished slavery much sooner than the southern states. This information can be seen implicitly seen in source 1 Distribution of slaves (1820, Primary). Furthermore, African slaves had to abide by a very strict set of rules/laws that were specifically applied to them on the plantations. If any of those rules/laws were broken severe punishments would be issued towards the slave. Some examples include: if a slave was in possession of a weapon, that individual would receive up to 35 slashes from a whip, and sometimes after being whipped salt would be poured into the flesh wound causing even more intense pain to the African slave. The aftermath of the whipping can be explicitly seen in source 2, slave whipping (Wooden engraving. Primary. 1861) If an enslaved African attempted to escape and was caught by the plantation owner, he would be corrected by first being whipped, then would be forced to wear a slave collar/punishment

African slaves throughout the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade were treated with the utmost disrespect. Furthermore, when the slaves were transported to the New Worlds (current day United States) they were auctioned off to their future owner and from there the slaves would spend the remainder of their life working on plantations or mines in cruel conditions. The majority of the enslaved Africans would be taken to the more southern states in the United States. This was because the southern states approved of slavery while the northern states did at first, but soon abolished slavery much sooner than the southern states. This information can be seen implicitly seen in source 1 Distribution of slaves (1820, Primary). Furthermore, African slaves had to abide by a very strict set of rules/laws that were specifically applied to them on the plantations. If any of those rules/laws were broken severe punishments would be issued towards the slave. Some examples include: if a slave was in possession of a weapon, that individual would receive up to 35 slashes from a whip, and sometimes after being whipped salt would be poured into the flesh wound causing even more intense pain to the African slave. The aftermath of the whipping can be explicitly seen in source 2, slave whipping (Wooden engraving. Primary. 1861) If an enslaved African attempted to escape and was caught by the plantation owner, he would be corrected by first being whipped, then would be forced to wear a slave collar/punishment