African Diaspora A History Through Culture Summary

In the reading, “The African Diaspora, A History Through Culture” by Patrick Manning explained how slavery was a big role in Africa; at the end of the eighteenth century there were about six million people living in the Americas and out of all those there were four million of them in slavery. There were two regions that were in close contact with each other through the Atlantic Slave Trade, which were West Africa and Central Africa. They both changed in close interaction with each other from the mid-sixteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. The sugar production expanded in the Caribbean and Brazil, many of the people arriving in the America were at plantations where sugar, tobacco, or indigo was the main product. There were establishments that
Some of the slaves began in the seventeenth and eighteenth century while some were already existing for long periods of time. Forced marches of the captives over long distances claimed many lives. A large number of the enslaved were destined to remain in Africa - many were transported across the Sahara to the north - which heightened the impact of the slave trade on the continent. It is estimated that the population of Africa remained stagnant until the end of the nineteenth century. In the Article “The Transatlantic Slave Trade” ,Paul E. Lovejoy wrote "The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on Africa: A Review of the Literature”, from the Journal of African History, basically stating how the slave trade and the Africans' resistance to it, led to intense social and political changes. Social relations were restructured and traditional values were overthrown. Many communities relocated as far from the slavers' route as possible. In the process, their technological and economic development was delayed as they committed their energy to hiding and defending themselves. In the end, the slave trade left the continent underdeveloped, disorganized, and vulnerable to