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.
In the first chapter of Equiano’s narrative, he gives an
Olaudah Equiano’s story of his life provides an intellectual, historical, and emotional basis for the study of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. This autobiography discusses the plight experienced by Olaudah Equiano and his experience in the slave trade. Throughout his life, he collected information and stories about his own culture, upbringing, and of his experiences within the slave trade to inform the story of his life. He eventually wrote them all down for readers to absorb, comprehend, and appreciate. Additionally, his story is important for current scholarly work because the slave trade acts as an important aspect of history that shapes African society as well as current attitudes in all parts of the world. Olaudah Equiano expressed
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
The changes in African life during the slave trade era form an important element in the economic and technological development of Africa. Although the Atlantic slave trade had a negative effect on both the economy and technology, it is important to understand that slavery was not a new concept to Africa. In fact, internal slavery existed in Africa for many years. Slaves included war captives, the kidnapped, adulterers, and other criminals and outcasts. However, the number of persons held in slavery in Africa, was very small, since no economic or social system had developed for exploiting them (Manning 97). The new system-Atlantic slave trade-became quite different from the early African slavery. The
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
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.
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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
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.
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.