o The Americas • Sugar was KEY • That’s why they are here • Before they relied on honey, fruits • Learned it from the Arabs • They captured people from Slovic Areas to help with the sugar in the Mediterranean • So they went to the AMERICAAS • Indians were flat out dying so they stole the Africans • There was racism behind it. Much easier to enslave someone who was inferior • 1500s century 11 million people were brought • 5% was to north America • vast majority will be to the sugar belt • The boat ride was AWFUL • They were chained to the boats • Middle passage • Most of them are from West Africa o Congo…
Slavery was extremely prominent in the Americas due to several reasons; cash crops required many people to farm them, Africans were more likely to know English, and Africans were seen as non-humans. A large percent of the slaves that worked in North America came from the Caribbean, which also meant they had already been exposed to European diseases. However, England did not focus on the American mainland so much as it did on filling the Caribbean “sugar islands” with able workers. It soon became apparent that direct slave trade did not meet the demands of North America, hence an intercolonial slave trade. Transatlantic slave traders could count on the previously mentioned sugar islands to not only be full of plantation owners rich with expendable income due to the huge profit from sugar, but to also have the largest labor needs.…
Once Slavery was introduced into the new colonies it changed the direction that the colonies were heading in. there are many theory’s and ideas linked with the importation of africans to america. Although some may consider racism a major role of the african enslavement, the need for Labor, Low Cost Price ,and Availability played a major role on the enslavement of africans in the new colonies.…
The first of the overwhelming benefits of this exchange would include the production of sugar. From the European and African side of the Atlantic, horses, pigs, goats, chili peppers, and sugar were exchanged. The Americans transferred squash, beans, corn, potatoes, and cacao. Sugar, an originally a rare spice originating from India, but was soon made much more accessible as it was massively cultivated in the Americas. Sugar was greatly valuable as it provided a great improvement to the overall taste of common, household food. This was a huge opportunity to monopolize the cash crop, making certain companies rich corresponding to its country. This is due to the fact of how a monopoly controls a large amount of merchandise; allowing the bargaining with just a single company. This, in turn, gives this company a huge amount of profits; especially when the object being sold is valuable. Plantations were established throughout the Spanish and Portuguese colonies. These plantations needed many workers and when the enslaved native populations started to die off, a new source of forced labor were required. This labor came from Africa, resulting in massive exchanges of African slaves throughout the Atlantic. This exchange was done through the offer of slaves for technology. This led to an increase of power of many African states as their control dramatically rose. This is due to the exchange of the…
One of the most harmful effects that European conquest caused on the world was the practice of Slavery, and it took place in Africa. First, European explored African and conquered them, then they took some of African population into other countries for work labor because they stand the weather and bare the hardworking while Europeans could not . Olaudah Equiano said in his document " When I looked round the ship too and saw a large furnace or cooper boiling, and a multitude of black of every description chained together, every sorrow" (Olaudah Equiano, The interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, P. 701). Based on this document, slave's journey to other countries were awfully bad. For example, the ship that they were traveled…
These plants were extremely labor intensive to grow, which necessitated cheap labor to make a large return on them. The indentured servant system worked for some time, but it’s usefulness was limited by terms of service. To combat these problems and continue turning a profit the British colonies turned to slavery. Enslavement of africans did not start in the British colonies of North America, but rather in the colonies of the West Indies where the native populations had been devastated. The necessity of african slavery arose from the high mortality rate of slaves working sugar plantations and refineries specifically.…
On Barbados and other islands where a flourishing sugar economy developed, the English planters were a tough, aggressive, and ambitious people. Since their livelihoods depended on their workforces, they expanded and solidified the system of African slavery there remarkably quickly. By the late seventeenth century, there were four times as many African slaves as there were white settlers (Text page 43.) In the North, slavery was considered to be impractical and cruel to mankind. Some considered it to be an act that goes against the bible, and inhumane. The Southerners on the other hand, were appalled at the fact of slaves being freed, and living equally with people they considered uncivilized. Many white southerners believed, in fact, that enslaving Africans-whom they considered inferior and unfit for…
The immediate addiction European citizens developed to the new sweetener drove the sugar trade between Europe and the Caribbean. In order to feed this addiction, slave labor in the Caribbean emerged, taking advantage of the islands which proved to be perfect for the growth of Europe’s newest drug. The population of Europe strongly desired sugar for sweetening imports, especially coffee, tea and chocolate. The citizens craved the sweet taste and demanded to be supplied with more of the drug. The price of slaves, the driving force behind the production of sugar, reflected this love of the sweetener, as the demand for sugar rose so did the price of slaves. But, as the price of slaves rose so did the price of owning and maintaining a sugar plantation…
Gary Nash discusses the impact of black people in a white peoples colony. The first negro people to come to America in Virginia were probably indentured servants who would receive some type of reward after their time of service was over, until 1660. After 1660 though many of the “Negros” that came to America were slaves, purchased as property. By the 1800’s every colony in America had “slave codes” which stripped black people of every right they had and made them property. His biggest claim was his stating of, “More than anything else it was sugar that transformed the African slave trade.” The slave trade became an extremely profitable enterprise for European nations once the sugar plantations reached the New World. Many of the New World colonies sought to buy slaves to work on the sugar plantations. It wasn't until the last third of the seventeenth century were the English involved with the slave trade and since it was their royal colonies that were buying most of the slaves they saw a new opportunity to get more money from their colonies. Once the English started to get involved it caused most European nations to war over who dominated the slave trade since it was such a profitable enterprise. pg 38-39.…
After this slavery began appear in Jamestown. In the 1700 slavery increased once the need for labor in growing tobacco was need. That ultimately started and grew the slave trade. Wait hasn’t slavery been around for a long time? Well that’s correct African kings would go into battle with each other. These kings would send their strongest warriors to capture the other tribe and bring back the other tribes people. What the king would do with those people is basically turn them into slaves and either let them work for him or sell them Europeans in trade of guns, gold and other goods. Johnson states, “The white man did not introduce slavery to Africa . . . . And by the fifteenth century, men with dark skin had become quite comfortable with the…
In the beginning the white colonists thought that the Native Americans were friendly and helped others. They accepted the Native Americans and the colonists got involved with trades with them. They wanted to convert them into Christians, but the Native Americans refused. Eventually this made the colonists angry; this is when they started hating each other. The confrontations between is why English also disliked other race, and thought all people of color were bad people. Although, not all Native Americans disagreed with the white colonist, some embraced the English culture, because they wanted wealth and the strong military on their side.…
The first industrial factories were the sugar mills of the Americas. The sugar mills contained sophisticated and organizational systems that can be compared to modern industries and characteristics.…
The Europeans did not treat the Africans fairly. First, in the 1400s the Portuguese discovered Africa. They conquered cities on the coast. They started to capture African people and sell them as slaves. Then in the 1800s Great Britain outlawed the capture of slaves and later owning slaves.…
Slavery existed in africa long before the arrival of europeans and was widespread at the period of economic contact. slaves were generally the unfortunate victims of territorial expansion. Slave trade in the europeans and over to the east side of north america like asia,africa,europe and china the slave trade was started long before it was brought to the americas. Some slaves ran away from their plantations most didn't make it but tried to, if they didn't make it they were brutally beaten. Many africans had been exposed to european diseases and had built up some immunity many africans had experience in farming and could be taught plantation work africans were less likely to escape because they didn't know their way around the new land their skin color made it easier to find them if they escaped and tried to live among others. Between 1500-1600 nearly 300 thousand africans were transported to the americas.during the 17th century more than 40 percent of all africans brought to the americas went to brazil. The indentures goods were there farming knowledge and some disease resistance the negatives are new disease and the assimilation and population. Natives the negatives are knowledge diseases grantland there were no…
The evil of slavery is obvious today: the complete bondage and ownership of another are a brutal violation of human rights. However, the immorality of bondage was not always so apparent. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were not extended to Africans, who were viewed as inferior and brutish by white standards. Although America was created with the ideals of democracy in mind, many did not recognize the paradox of having slavery in a "free" country. Slavery was central to the nation's wealth: cotton, the king export, was chiefly produced by slave labor. To threaten slavery was to threaten the country's being. Despite slavery's deep impression in America, many people came to object to bondage: many were shocked by the harsh sadistic…