African American Slave Trade Dbq Essay

Slavery is the practice for one to enslave another as their own property. Modern slave trade took place in between the mid 1500’s to the late 1800’s. Primarily the Europeans and many powerful African leaders were included within the slave trade. The prime reason the slave trade took place was because a larger labor force allowed for immense profits in Europe and the new world. As a result of the slave trade, slaves experienced harsh and inhumane social, emotional, and physical tortures. African American’s lives were socially never the same as afore. “I never saw my mother, to know her as such, more than four or five times in my life; and each of these times was very short in duration, and at night.” (Document 8) Frederick Douglas and