I am Corey barber and I am doing my research on Africans and how they came to America (there early immigration). So to start many of the Africans was forced to migrate from Africa to America. This was done through the transatlantic slave trade. There was another way that African people forced to migrate was through the internal slave trade, it transported them from the Atlantic coast to the enter of the American south. There was a third way that African people were migrated this way was done in a large way some African people carried other Africans/black people the rural area of the South to the urban north. At the end of the twentieth century and at the start of the twenty-first century African American life is again being transformed by another migration, this time it is at a …show more content…
The middle passage came to epitomize the experience of people from African descent throughout the Atlantic world. The nightmarish weeks and sometimes months locked in the hole of the stinking slaves ships speak of the traumatic loss of freedom. The degradation of enslavement and the long years of bondage that also followed them. The middle passage also represented the will to survive, also the determination of black people not to be dehumanized by the dehumanizing circumstances. That confidence that freedom would be eventually be theirs again and that they would take their rightful place as a person among people as an equal. The transatlantic slave trade had started in the middle of the fifteenth century when the Portuguese ships sailed down to the West African coast. The purpose was to trade for gold’s and spices, but many of the voyagers found an even more valuable commodity, that would be human beings. After a while the trading of men and women supplanted other commerce, and the slaves destination changed from Europe to many American states. Where plantations was a growing commodity for the international