Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Artifact

Everyone has their own understanding of what slavery is, but there are misconceptions about the history of “slavery”. Not many people understand how the slave trade initially began. Originally Africa had “slaves” but they were servants or serfs, sometimes these people could be part of the master’s family. They could own land, rise to positions of power, and even purchase their freedom. This changed when white captains came to Africa and offered weapons, rum, and manufactured goods for people. African kings and merchants gave away the criminals, debtors, and prisoner from rival tribes. The demand for cheap labor was increasing, this resulted in the forced migration of over ten million slaves. The Atlantic Slave Trade occurred from 1500 to 1880 CE. This large-scale event changed the economy and histories of many places. The Atlantic Slave Trade held a great amount of significance in the development of America. Africans shaped America by building a solid foundation for the country.

The two majors drivers that led to the transatlantic slave trade was the European desire for the agricultural products of the Americas and the need for laborers to work the land in the Americas. All participants, besides for the slaves, benefited from the trading.

The Atlantic Slave Trade was a system of slavery that took place between the 16th and 19th centuries. It comprised of capturing African tribesmen and women from areas of Western and Central Africa and placing them into the colonies of the New World in North, Central, and South America. Many countries like England, Portugal, Spain, Holland, and France, had participated in enslaving the African peoples. The African slaves were used to exploit an array of commodities such coffee, cotton, rum, sugar, and tobacco, and eventually they had become commodities themselves. Often times the slaves were treated awfully by their owners. Most were forced to work long and tiresome hours on plantations to acquire said commodities, and then use them to create products that would be later sold. The slaves did not receive any profits from the sale of the products that they produced, but they were paid with basic needs such as shelter and food. The revenue that was produced by slave labour was highly profitable, but in turn it was counter acted by the cost of keeping the slave labourers alive and well. By the end of the 18th century a period known as the Industrial Revolution had swept Europe, especially England, and her colonial partners. Never before had production been so cheap and efficient. Many believe that the enslavement of Africans was necessary to initiate the industrial revolution. They believe that the slaves provided the foundation to the development of the revolution, and without

What were the social, political, and economic motives of Europeans in initiating slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade?

During 1619 was the first time North America would see slaves (history.com). At the time it was unknown as to how long slaves would be kept in bondage and to labor the goods of the whites. Many slaves had been kidnapped, traded, and sold. The South was pro-slave and the reason black slaves would end up freed (Goldfield 2007). Abolitionism began during the early 1830’s when Christians realized that slavery was opposite of their belief and a sin (http://americanabolitionist.liberalarts.iupui.edu). This lead to the “Abolition Movement,” that would eventually help to free some of the slaves. Post Civil War slavery during the 17th through 19th centuries, in Southern United States, the growth of slavery, the system, free slavery, and abolitionism.

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.

Slavery has taken place throughout the world since before ancient times, and the act of trading slaves was a common act throughout the world for centuries. Slavery previously existed in certain parts of Africa, Europe, Asia, and also in America before the beginning of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. What initially started out as an enormous search for trade in gold, spices, and etc., ended up turning into an callous human trading system of exporting African slaves, which would continue for well over 400 years. In the late 15th century, Europeans and Arabs removed slaves from the West, Central and Southeast Africa overseas during the African slave trade era. The European establishment of Africa

The African slave trade was an important part of the Atlantic World. Many Africans were taken out of Africa and brought to the Americas or the Islands in the Caribbean. Many of them were transported through triangular trade, and faced a harsh new life when they arrived. The causes and effects of slavery in the Atlantic World were good for Europeans, and bad for the Africans and Natives.

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.

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,

Imagine being on a ship rocking back and forth, side to side, chained to people you might not even know. The Atlantic Slave Trade or Transatlantic Slave trade was a boat that West African slaves rode on across the Atlantic ocean. The Atlantic Slave Trade made a huge impact on lives; people getting taking away from their families, children scared and not knowing what to do.

rise of African slave trade. Source B goes on to state that most American colonies “became dependent on Africans” only after relying on white indentured servants and Native American labour first. Some American colonies, the source writes, even never used African labour. These are three facts the source lists to prove that Africanization of slavery in the Americas was not inevitable.

The Transatlantic Slave Trade was an organization of capturing and selling African slaves. This took place in the Atlantic Ocean from the 15th through the 19th century. Muslims constituted a significant percentage of Africans that were brought to the Americas in servitude. Books such as “Servant of Allah” and “The Prince Among Slave” describes and documented life of Muslim slaves throughout the Transatlantic Slave Trade and also, show how Muslim slaves struggled , persisted, and survived throughout early stages of slavery in America. The Muslim servants were the most educated and resistant among slaves , they exerted a disproportionate influence on slave life in the Americas. While many slave owners tried to strip many Muslim slaves of their culture, their way prevailed and this helped them advance during the slave trade. Language, assimilation, and tenacity are major factors that helped Muslim slaves in America, without these markers their success in the new world would have not existed. The movie “ Prince among Slaves” is centralized around the theme that Muslim Africans persisted in the America and Caribbean’s because of their educated background, which allowed them to conform to American life, without losing their sense of home.

Many think of slavery as a thing of the past. The word slavery has a strong connotation to the Atlantic Slave Trade; a system that was used to exploit, transfer and abuse Africans for countries own greedy needs. The thought of slavery is usually in the context of being in the past and we as humans have moved past the horrible abuse and devastation that it has brought. This is not just not true, but it is also dangerous. By having the mindset that slavery isn’t an issue anymore silences and ignore the struggle of millions. In fact, there are more slaves in the world today then there were during the Atlantic Slave Trade. “At least 12.3 million people are subjected to some form of forced labor.” (Doyle, 30) It is important to realize this and leaned about it to help those who are enslaved now. Modern slavery has strong ties to gender. More women and girls are enslaved then men and boys are.