...The leading cause of the African American slave trade in the 15th - 19th centuries was that Trade ships profited from the exploitation of the slaves which were used as workers in the Americas in order to produce cheap materials for America. According to document A, The colonization of the Americas created an increased demand for slaves labors. The slaves came from local groups in Africa that raided another tribe and took hostages. These hostages were then sold for main guns or other materials and goods. This made many great powers rise up and gain strength. They even sold some of their own people by corrupting the judicial system. According to document B, Made many rich and brought the world together. The slaves were not happy with the new...
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...The Atlantic Slave Trade was in the mid fifth tenth century that Europeans began trading and capturing slaves from the African continent the three main points is African were forced into slavery, Native American population declined and Alfonzo letter to stop slave trade. My thesis is that these main points were the reason why Europe corrupted that point of time. Native American population depopulated due to disease and war and could not provide enough work and the proof is in Document 1 which says that they declined because Europeans had brought disease and the Spaniards did not want to do the work themselves which to the Europeans access to another cheap labor which was the African Slave Trade and then document 6 it tells us that America is being depopulated which was where the Natives were, and in document 7 King Alfonzo letter says mentioned merchants are taking every day our natives which started the depopulation....
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...the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa were shipped to the New World, as part of the Atlantic slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods, which were traded for purchased or kidnapped Africans, who were transported across the Atlantic as slaves; the slaves were then sold or traded for raw materials, which would be transported back to Europe to complete the voyage. The journey of slave trading ships was from the west coast of Africa, where the slaves were obtained, across the Atlantic, where they were sold or, in some cases, traded for goods such as molasses, which was used in the making of rum. However, this voyage has come to be remembered for much more than simply the transport and sale of slaves. The Middle Passage was the longest, hardest, most dangerous, and also most horrific part of the journey of the slave ships. With extremely tightly packed loads of human cargo that stank and carried both infectious disease and death, the ships would travel east to west across the Atlantic on a miserable voyage lasting at least five weeks, and sometimes as long as three months. Although incredibly profitable for both its participants and their investing backers, the terrible Middle Passage has come to represent the ultimate in human misery and suffering. The abominable and inhuman conditions which the Africans were faced with on their voyage clearly display the great evil of the slave trade. During the Middle Passage...
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...New Methods of producing sugar – The English and French began inventing new and better ways of processing sugar cane. b) The Labour Force – Planting and processing sugar cane required extensive labour force. The planters wanted work to be done using the cheapest labour force, which in the end, would mean greater profits for them when the sugar was sold. Thus, an increasing number of African slaves were used. c) Increase in the price of Land: Great sugar plantations developed by buying the small plots of land that were used to cultivate tobacco. As sugar became more profitable, the demand for land increased, which caused the price of land to increase. d) Change in governance – As the English French and Dutch colonies became more important, there was a need for systems of government and control. At 1st, the government in Europe did not want to spend money on their colonies, leaving all responsibilities on the proprietors (owners of the plantation). However, when they realized how profitable their colonies were becoming, they stepped in to claim ownership. e) Trade: When Europeans realized the value...
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...Slave Trade Slavery is the owning of slaves as a practice or institution. The condition of being a slave is bondage. A Slave is a human who is owned as property by, and is absolutely subject to the will of another and is stripped of all freedom and personal rights. Hard to believe but one of the most horrifying occurrences in World History, is the Slave Trade. It was a time in which people were sold as merchandise, where human beings were being treated as if they were not human. Beaten, being taken on a ship to an unknown land, drowned because of rations, and space. The capture and forced labor of Africans by Europeans began in the early 16th century. Africans were rounded up by other Africans as objects of trade with the Europeans. Eventually, slave ships became a regular sight in what came to be known as "the Middle Passage." These ships provided a constant flow of African slaves to Brazil and the Caribbean Islands, where the human cargo was auctioned off and brought to Europe or the New World. Many of the ships were not cleaned. The "cargo" was not fed or cleansed properly. Many captives died from the inhuman conditions on these voyages. Who had control? England gained control of the slave trade under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, and managed the shipment of slaves to Spanish colonies. As the colonies gained independence from Spain, they outlawed slavery, and soon slaves were most in demand in North America, particularly on plantations. Few were fortunate enough to be house...
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...discovered and was led by the country to start the African Slave Trade. The African Slave Trade was first exploited for plantations in that is now called the Caribbean, and eventually reached the southern coasts of America. These African natives were of all ages and sexes. Then we have the Underground Railroad in which not many know exactly what it is. First of all, it wasn’t underground, and it wasn’t even a railroad. The Underground Railroad actually refers to a path along which escaping slaves were passed from farmhouse to storage sheds, from cellars to barns, until they reached safety in the North. Women also suffered greatly from slavery and were treated to be lower than a man and were at the mercy of their spouses. Slavery has been a part of our lives for years and to this day we still suffer from it. African slaves were shipped from Africa by the Europeans in what was called “The Triangular Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.” This was an organized route where Europeans would travel to Africa bringing manufactured goods, capture Africans and take them to the Caribbean, and then take the crops and goods and bring them back to Europe. Slavery was common all over the world until 1794 when France signed the Act of the National Convention abolishing slavery. It took America about a hundred years to do the same. George Washington was America's hero, first president and he was also a slave owner. He deplored slavery but did not release his slaves. His will stated that they would be released...
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...large scale agriculture, they realize that they need a large, cheap workforce to work in the cotton and rice fields. They begin to purchase African slaves from slave traders. - 1776 Slavery is widespread and widely accepted in the 1600’s United States. Whites are given absolute power and authority over black slaves. (white men could not be held accountable for killing a black servant) white people believed that blacks were naturally inferior and were not capable of rational thought,theref ore should be treated as animals. - The colonies fought for and gained independence from 1776 Britain and became the United States of America. The newly formed country issued “The Declaration of Independence.” This document made it illegal for citizens to buy and sell slaves. However, although the Declaration outlawed the salve trade, slavery did not stop. Those still owning slaves could continue to practice slavery. - Conditions of A Slave: -Most slaves were given very little in the way of food or clothing by their masters. -Slaves worked long hours with very few breaks. -Slaves were often bought and sold and families were broken up. -Slaves who refused to comply with all orders were beaten and punished cruelly. 1836 The American Civil War ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. (Emancipation=freedom) This document legally freed all slaves in the United States of America. However, with legal slavery gone, whites constructed laws that would keep blacks in their place. - Blacks...
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...enslavement of Africans occured because there was a massive demand for labor, people were benefitting for it, and also it was justified. In the late 1400s, Atlantic Slave Trade started within three continents; North America, Europe, and Africa. Which resulted in the exchangement of ten million Africans to the Americas. This idea of expanding labour through slavery affected the world. Even though slavery is a horrible and an evil act, in the 1400s there was a massive demand for labor and most of the labor needed in the New Colonies were very intense and there was not enough settlers and indentured servants, a...
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...Throughout ages of human society, the question of morality has always been hotly debated. Many famous philosophers of iconic lands, such as Socrates, Voltaire, Confucius, and Swami Vivekananda have written and spoken volumes on the meaning of morality and its impact on human society. Their actions and judgments have helped society, such as Socrates impact on Ancient Greece or Vivekananda’s impact on Medieval Indian Society. Because of their actions, the debate of morality has helped us learn from the mistakes of previous generation and societies, and help us build our society today. Clearly, morality is very important to humans. But why is morality so important to us? Perhaps, one reason why morality is so important is because it discriminates between actions that are seemingly “right”, and actions that are seemingly “wrong”. Not only that, but it also helps us handle a dilemma in the best way possible in order to avoid a potentially disastrous situation. For instance, many people consider a “wrong” action to be immoral. One example of action always considered immoral is lying. In general, many people consider lying, the act of not telling the truth or providing incomplete information, to be immoral. But is it always immoral to lie? Can there be situations where lying can be a moral action to take? At first, I didn’t think so. But after a semester of reading books such as Everything Matters, The White Tiger and Someone Knows My Name along with researching articles on...
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...Olaudah Equiano The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African First Published London, 1789 NOTE: the following text is one African’s account of the “middle passage”: the horrible trip that slaves had to endure to arrive in the Americas. Slaves were captured in Africa, carried to the seacoast, sold to European traders, then carried on slave ships to the New World. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: 1) To what extent is African slavery, as described in Equiano’s account, different from slavery practiced by Europeans in the Atlantic economy? 2) Based on information in this passage, to what extent can white people be blamed for the African slave trade? 3) Equiano later rose to be an advocate for the abolition of the slave trade. To what degree do you think that his biography is biased, colored by his political agenda? 1. I hope the reader will not think I have trespassed on his patience in introducing myself to him with some account of the manners and customs of my country. They had been implanted in me with great care, and made an impression on my mind, which time could not erase, and which all the adversity and variety of fortune I have since experienced served only to rivet and record; for, whether the love of one's country be real or imaginary, or a lesson of reason, or an instinct of nature, I still look back with pleasure on the first scenes of my life, though that pleasure has been for the most part mingled...
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...Michelle Todd 12 Years a Slave November 3, 2015 SOCI-1010-N06 Introduction to Sociology 83300.201580 12 Years a Slave In 2013, director Steve McQueen released 12 Years a Slave, his film adaptation of Solomon Northup’s 19th century slave narrative of the same name. Interpreting McQueen’s film within analytic frameworks including comparative slavery studies, trauma studies, feminist theory, film theory, and the rhetoric of visual cultures, the authors create a wide range of analyses that address several critical questions. The critical conversations surrounding Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave revolves around the film’s realism, specifically its realistic portrayal of the violence and trauma of slavery and the image of the tortured slave body. McQueen creates prolonged, unflinching images of slave torture and suffering, lingering on graphic scenes of brutality, including whipping, hanging, beatings, and rape. In fact, in the very act of attempting to resolve the ambiguity of McQueen’s images, this competing discourse strangely repeats and performs the very paradox of realism itself. In this way, the discourse surrounding McQueen’s realist images of the trauma and violence of slavery perform a fundamental split that continuously reflects and implicates the images themselves. This analysis contextualizes the paradoxical instability of McQueen’s realist images of the trauma and violence of slavery and the discourse that surrounds them within a larger lineage of the history...
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...the congress but large states wanted all representation to be regulated by the population of the state. The solution to this issue was that the constitution would create a bicameral legislature which meant that in the House of Representatives, the representation would be determined by the population. Over ten years a census would be taken to determine the population of each state to even it out, and in each state they would have the same number of representatives which is two. Another horrible issue concerned the slaves that abided within the states, the issue arose which questioned whether or not a slave would be counted as a part of the population. As inhumane as it seems, this debate was ongoing until a conclusion came about proclaiming that a slave would be counted as three fifths of a person. This also made them argue about the slave trade, the northern abolitionists wanted the Congress to ban the slave trade, however the southern slave traders argued that slave trading was extremely necessary for a prosperous economy. Through this period of time that involved the making of the Constitution, one can see how many issues rose within the Congress, some were handles and solved very well, however some were not, causing the United States to realize their mistakes through consequences. How was national sovereignty established? National Sovereignty is a legal expression defining the fact that their is a right to self govern by a state or a nation. In...
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... Manipulating the Emotions William Wilberforce's 1789 speech to the British Parliament centered around the abolition of the slave trade industry which at the time was seen as an insidious practice for those willing to take up the task. Even more, Wilberforce's formal yet frank tone not only served to assist his gravitational comparison of the treatment of slaves that were captured, but also stemmed a troubling portrait in the minds of the people of Parliament. Wilberforce commences his formal speech by first focusing on his modest credibility towards approaching the Parliament despite his drastic reasons. He makes himself seem inferior to the Parliament through his comment of feeling “...both terrified and concerned at my own inadequacy to such a task” (lines 2-5). Wilberforce knows that his audience are the type of people to show how powerful they are based on their social status or their amount of money. Therefore, he approaches them in this manner to not only appease their judgmental minds, but also to show his respect and fear towards this worthy audience. However, Wilberforce then immediately dives into the matter at hand by declaring that “through the course of a long and laborious examination...I march forward with a firmer step with the full assurance...that I should be able to justify...the abolition of the slave trade” (lines 5-11), drawing attention to the fact that he took it upon himself to do extensive research on his presented topic; giving Parliament...
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...World countries, such as in some U.S. states like Florida, Indiana and Taxes, have responded to the crisis positively, where they started legislation. The new laws have enclosed and tightened anti-human trafficking in major events; such as, the super bowl in 2011, in which about ten thousand prostitutes were brought to be sold. These events are marvelous showcases of the goods human traffickers have, since when there is a demand, there has to be a supply (Pundina, 2013). Thus, they prepare everything with their partners and plan ahead online. It is, also, easier to make a trade in crowded place where it is hard to contain. Moreover, justice systems and law enforce organizations have been able to boon from social media and specialized database that helps their users to make reports easier via online without the need to call or go straight to the police deportment ( McWhorter, 432).One practical solution provided by the international criminal police organization (INTERPOL). The organization has made the tool human trafficking and smuggling (HTS) massage. This tool allows its user to give a prototype format for reporting a case of trafficking happening in the member countries, which are about 190 countries, in the organization’s database (Zagorianou,...
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...America has witnessed hundreds of years of cruelty in such cases of Equiano being enslaved and The Crucible and the witch hunt, these factors clearly shows that Americans are defined by having control over a weaker person's mind or body. In the text it states clear evidence that this is true such as slaves in the account of The Life of Olaudah Equiano. Equiano was a young man from West Africa who was kidnapped by slave traders. He was forced on to a boat to become a slave in America. “And we were all put under the deck, so that we could not see how the managed the vessel”(Pearson 171). This quote shows how they manipulated these slave. They had no idea what was going on they were being controlled. Every move they made, Every bite they took,...
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