...feet in width and six feet in length in bed”(11), and continues saying that the boats were small, the food was gross, and you were nearly guaranteed to get sick. This is not how most people treat someone they consider to be equal. He even says “Better black slaves on plantations than white servants in industry, which would encourage aspirations to independence”(10). It is my opinion that independence is something for which everyone should have aspirations, and any attempt to squash those aspirations is an act of injustice, and in this case, an act of classism/racism. In David Eltis’s book, Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Eltis argues that British ended their direct participation in the nasty business, even...
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...When it comes to the Gullah people one has to know about the history that falls behind this group. The Gullah people were a fundamental factor in the cultivation of rice as they were a community of African descendants who lived along the coast of Georgia and South Carolina. In addition to their solid group they were able to maintain their African heritage than other group. The group is tied to the creole language similar to the Krio of Sierra Leone, and was skilled in the creation of African made handcrafts. In this paper I will discuss how the Gullah people were significant in the connection to the transatlantic slave trade, the diseases that occurred while the trade originated, and how the nature of this culture managed to live on their heritage...
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...By the early 1800s the transatlantic slave trade was growing out of control. At this time, England, France, Spain, and the Dutch all had stakes in the slave trade. These large powerful countries needed workforce to grow and cultivate their crops. These countries turned to the ever-growing slave trade that is taking place on the west coast of Africa. (The slavers scoured the coasts of Guinea. As they devastated an area they moved westward and then south...” (James 6). One great point that James makes is about how we view Africa at this time. We have been taught that African tribes were leading the slave trade by having these massive wars and capturing opposing tribes and selling them into slavery. The magnitude that we have been taught...
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...Africa before the Transatlantic Slave Trade Racist views of Africa In the last 50 years much has been done to combat the entirely false and negative views about the history of Africa and Africans, which were developed in Europe in order to justify the Transatlantic Slave Trade and European colonial rule in Africa that followed it. In the eighteenth century such racist views were summed up by the words of the Scottish philosopher David Hume, who said, ‘I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilised nation of that complexion, nor even any individual, eminent either in action or in speculation. No ingenious manufacture among them, no arts, no sciences”. In the nineteenth century the German philosopher Hegel simply declared ‘Africa is no historical part of the world.’ This openly racist view, that Africa had no history, was repeated by Hugh Trevor-Roper, Regius Professor of History at Oxford University, as late as 1963. Africa, the birthplace of humanity We now knowWe now know that far from having no history, it is likely that human history actually began in Africa. The oldest evidence of human existence and that of our immediate ancestors has been found in Africa. In July 2002 further evidence of the existence of early hominids in Africa was found with the discovery of the fossilised remains of what has been called Sahelanthropus tchadensis, thought to be between 6-7 million years old, in Chad. The latest...
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...The Transatlantic Slave Trade took place in the Atlantic Ocean through the 15th – 19th century between America, Europe and Africa. The Trade blossomed due to the expansion of sugar production, causing a higher demand for Africans. The expansion of sugar production drove The Transatlantic Trade to prosper. But the Transatlantic Slave Trade did not begin the capturing of Africans, European were capturing Africans long before the slave traffic developed. The Portuguese were the first European that explored West Africa. When returning to Portugal they took 12 Africans as a gift back home to their king, this was one of the earliest experience of European seizing Africans. But did the transatlantic slave trade consist of European kidnapping slaves...
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...this continent. In particular, the transatlantic slave trade affected many African states and people in West Africa. The transatlantic slave trade had affected many African societies and states in various ways. The reason for slave trade was due to the improper climate of European land for the production of sugar. Sugar in Europe was a rising commodity that Europeans did not have the labor and land for. When the Europeans were on route to Asia for spice trade, the weather would blow their ships to the west coast of Africa. Knowing that the Europeans were in not in Asia, they set to explore the continent of...
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...11/22/08 A Block: Slavery Slaves As a Commodity The Transatlantic Slave Trade opened a global marketing system when Portugal had an importing business. The “product” of this industry was slaves from West Africa. This business did extremely well since North America, also known as the “New World”, had an unreliable work force. Before Africans were used, Europeans relied on indentured servants. They would have a sentence of about four years work with no pay after that time they had to be freed and paid to work. Other people were used as slaves such as Native Americans and Caucasians but they were killed by diseases that foreigners carried which their immune system could not handle. A lot of people feel that slavery does not exist anymore, but if slavery is making people work for little to no money and taking away some of their rights then sweat shops is slavery. In this paper, I will show how profitable the Transatlantic Slave Trade was. I will prove this first by acknowledging how many places were involved with the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Second, I will explain how other trades affected slavery. Third, I will show how we still use sweatshops as a form of slavery today. The Transatlantic Slave Trade supplied the main base of the New World’s economy. The majority ships that sailed yearly for Africa were from the city of Newport. A little over sixty percent of North American voyages that involved the Transatlantic Slave Trade were founded in Rhode Island because...
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...The transatlantic slave trade is the longest lasting forced migration in history. Lasting from the 15th century to the end of the 19th century, the trade was responsible for the of between 12-15 million people being transported from Africa to the Western Hemisphere. During this time African men, women, and children were kidnaped from their home, torn away from their families and shipped halfway across the world to unknown lands. These voyages took anywhere between six to eight weeks, totalling over 4,000 miles. The Africans forced to make these journeys on these crowded ships were barely kept alive. Each space that they were kept in was approximately five feet three inches high and four feet four inches wide. People were packed so close that...
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...million kidnapped Africans were forced into the Transatlantic slave trade and shipped to the Americas, only a little over 10 million made it. The Transatlantic slave trade was a small segment of the popular global slave trade network and was responsible for the deaths of over two point two million future slaves. This mass kidnapping of oblivious Africans occurred across the Atlantic from the early sixteenth to nineteenth century and was the second part of the “Triangular Trade”. The Triangular Trade or Triangle Trade was a trading system between Europe, Africa, and the North America in which commodities such as arms, slaves, sugar, and coffee were transported between the three nations (Lewis). The...
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...supply than was available through the importation of European servants and irregularly supplied African slaves. At first the Dutch supplied the slaves, as well as the credit, capital, technological expertise, and marketing arrangements. After the restoration of the English monarch following the Commonwealth (1642-60), the King and other members of the royal family invested in the Company of Royal Adventurers, chartered in 1663, to pursue of the lucrative African slave trade. That company was succeeded by the Royal Africa Company in 1672, but the supply still failed to meet the demand, and all types of private traders entered the transatlantic commerce. Between 1518 and 1870, the transatlantic slave trade supplied the greatest proportion of the Caribbean population. As sugarcane cultivation increased and spread from island to island--and to the neighboring mainland as well--more Africans were brought to replace those who died rapidly and easily under the rigorous demands of labor on the plantations, in the sugar factories, and in the mines. Acquiring and transporting Africans to the New World became a big and extremely lucrative business. From a modest trickle in the early sixteenth century, the trade increased to an annual import rate of about 2,000 in 1600, 13,000 in 1700, and 55,000 in 1810. Between 1811 and 1870, about 32,000 slaves per year were imported. As with all trade, the operation fluctuated widely, affected by regular market factors of supply and demand as well as the...
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...Slavery during the 1700-1900’s was a major piece of history led by greed and inconsideration of human life involving several different colonizers. Slavery in America began in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 when a Dutch ship brought about twenty African men and women to help tend to crops and tobacco growth. This led other countries to turn to slavery for cheap labor. Slavery slowly developed into what we know to be a long history of economic growth, suffering, abuse, and mistreatment. The history of slavery not only includes slavery as a whole but also the slave ships, slave revolts, and much more. Finally, on December 6th, 1865 the 13th amendment was ratified by American congress to abolish slavery in the United States. The article written by...
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... humiliating. In particular, there is one which has been historically long lasting; the Transatlantic African slave trade. This long and grueling migration paved the way for new races and culture. African Americans thrive all over the world but unfortunately descendants from this race did not come to the Americas on their own free will. A world altering voyage and conquest took shape when Christopher Columbus traveled and discovered the Americas in 1492 (1). Historically true, the America’s took shape but not without risk, sacrifice, or discrimination of a divine civilization. Columbus was on venture seeking route to Asia, in turn; found an untouched land devoured by Native Americans (2). Being distracted new ideas and opportunities, he reset is path. The mark of the Columbian Exchange happened; bringing the eventual commerce of food, disease, culture, power and new races (3). All of the changes were not as promising or good. The transatlantic slave trade brought new life but also brought darker times. Columbus didn’t develop this concept, he actually adapted to it. Although, slavery in the America’s was a forced and free transition, the continent of Africa provided the part of the migrating idea: African slavery and slave trading existed long before European disclosure (4). Since the concept was adapted from one of the countries who defined slavery long before the 19th century, slaves adhered to slavers or masters; this was also contributed from Africa. Men, women and children...
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...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...
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...The transatlantic slave trade started with the transfer of Africans from their home villages to the European colonies in the Americas. Many European countries participated, including England, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. Before the arrival of these Europeans, many African empires had formed, and with them trade routes. The Europeans capitalized on these routes, using them to take and transfer Africans from across the continent. From there, a dangerous and sickening journey began for the Africans, as they were brought across the ocean to the European colonies as slaves. This marked the true beginning of building the United States, as the most...
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...English, and Spanish planters were accustomed to purchasing African Slaves. The main parts of the Atlantic trading system ill go into is West Africa and the slave trade, New England and the Caribbean, and slaving voyages. Majority of the enslaved people taken to North America originated in West Africa. Some of the main Coastal rulers served as intermediaries, as they allowed the establishment of permanent slave-trading posts in their territories and supplying resident Europeans with slaves to fill ships that stopped regularly at coastal forts. Whydah was the major slave-trading port. It was said that Whydah passed at least 10 percent of all slaves exported to the Americas, and Whydah's merchants earned substantial annual profits from the trade. The Portuguese, English, and French all established forts there. Before any Europeans could begin to acquire any cargo, they had to pay fees to Whydah's rulers. However, the slave trade brought varying consequences for the nations of West Africa. Because of the trades centralizing tendencies, it helped to create such powerful eighteenth-century kingdoms such as Dahomey and Asante. The trade disrupted original trading patterns, as goods once sent north to the Mediterranean, were redirected to the Atlantic. Agricultural production intensified, especially in the rice growing areas because of the need to supply hundreds of slave ships with food for transatlantic voyages. Prisoners of war made up the bulk...
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