What Were The Effects Of Slavery In Slavery

Once people started to realize there was a lot of work to be done in America, they purchased the African people to use

The Europeans came to the Golden Coast and trading or captured tribes and dragged them on their ships to be sold as slaves in Europe, the West Indies, or the Americas. The captured Africans were held in nets with banded hand and legs- treated worse than a vicious fish. Then they were placed into bottom of smelly and infected ships that had no light and very little starchy food. They were chained to floor boards of bed boards with practically no space to move around for months. At times, over 600 slaves were shipped in a single ship across the Atlantic Ocean. At the beginning of the voyage, many captured Africans got sick and died or died because of so much trauma. According to Henry Louis Gates Jr., an estimate of 12.5 million African slaves were shipped

In addition, the living quarters were tiny, “One person receives a place of scarcely 2 feet width and 6 feet length in the bedstead, while many a ship carries four to six hundred souls” (Mittelberger, “On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants”). Over the span of the trip, settlers were overcome with disease, dying before they could reach their destination. Mothers who died were thrown overboard with their infants. An account by an indentured servant gives insight into their lives, it reads,“tied up and whipp’d to that Degree that you’d not serve an Animal, scarce any thing but Indian Corn and Salt to eat… almost naked no shoes nor stockings to wear.” Indentured servants were beaten if they were disobedient to their masters, were barely given anything to eat, and barely

force during that time. A steady income was needed after they had been freed from slavery. The

The slave traders made a fair amount of money as well from the fact that they owned

Some five hundred years ago, ships began transporting millions of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. This massive population movement helped create the African Diaspora in the New World. Many did not survive the horrible ocean journey. Enslaved Africans represented many different peoples, each with distinct cultures, religions, and languages. Most originated from the coast or the interior of West Africa, between present-day Senegal and Angola. Other enslaved peoples originally came from Madagascar and Tanzania in East Africa

In this passage, Stephanie E. Small articulates both the political economies and anomalous intimacies of captives (slaves) along the western coast of Africa. These captives were perceived as a commodity which garnered exchange value; captives could be equated to other West African exports, i.e gold, metal, and salt. European traders understood the correlation between maximizing the hull capacity and net revenue. When traders were primarily transporting gold, its high value and low weight allowed sailors to overlook ill-utilized space. Merchants meticulously arranged slaves in the hull of the ships, often folder together in a spoon-like manner. These ships contain approximately three hundred slaves. Compensation of ship captains

Eventually, a live of slavery awaited the ones who were unfortunate enough to survive the ships.

African slaves were sold to the Americans in exchange for hundreds or thousands of dollars, and would

It ought to be observed that the vast majority of people sold into slavery from sub-Saharan Africa were captured and conveyed into the hands of European slavers by their fellow Africans. The tribes and nations of the old slave coast became wealthy and powerful through selling

and had to survive the best they could. Often, many slaves had to wait in the

Throughout history there have been many gruesome crimes committed. The records and information that have been written about African slavery are one of the top atrocious crimes in history. By 1820, four slaves had crossed the Atlantic for every European. Between 1525 and 1866, in the entire history of the slave trade to the New World, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World. Only, 10.7 million survived disembarking in North America, the Caribbean and South America. However before the Europeans had arrived to Africa there was already a slave trade in process. The Islamic slave trade accounts for nearly 9 million captured African slaves in the seventh century. A tragedy of such

Slaves were ordered to behave and threatened both physically and mentally during these auctions and as they were not familiar with the land or language they had no choice but to comply. After the slaves were sold they would usually work in large plantations for their owners. They would work for countless hours under the scorching sun with little to no breaks and if they did decide to rest they would be whipped or severely punished. This led to many health problems for slaves and caused very early death amongst them. According to health history the average lifespan of a slave at that time was from 20 to 22 years old so slaves lived very short lives. Due to the fact that slaves led such short lives they were less likely to have kids, which is why slave owners had breeding farms in which a female and male slave were forced to have a child. In many cases African women were forced into breeding camps almost every year. Slaves were tortured in many revolting ways; they were abused sexually, mentally, verbally, and physically. Both female and male slaves were raped and sexually tortured by slave owners, and punishment for refusing included but was not limited to stabbing them, whipping them, inserting screwdrivers and pins in their bodies, burning them ,etc. According to Atlanta Black star with slaves being constantly tortured

The impact on the African slave trade during 16th centuries to 19th centuries was huge. The economy of those countries which allowed African slave trade grew bigger and bigger. For instance, America, a huge land that had nothing before the trade, started to gain some profit out of farming and increased hugely on population. They used a big amount of African slaves to farm and work. And this created the economy better in America. Also Europeans, which were only one million people brought up 5.5 million African slaves (men, women, children) to the Western Hemisphere. 80 % out of 5.5 million slaves were enslaved as a field worker (sugar). With all of those slaves working in the West Hemisphere, Europeans gained huge profits and were able to

The slaves were captured in tribal wars or raided on villages. Boys and men between the ages of sixteen and forty were sought; especially those are the younger end of this scale. Old people, women and children, if not killed in the raid, were left behind with no one to do the farming or other heavy tasks.