How Did Slave Trade Changed With The Arrival Of The Europeans?
How did slave trade change with the arrival of the Europeans?
As an African, before 1440, you might have been sold as a slave. In the 11th century, Muslims brought salt and luxury goods to trade for leather and slaves. If you were a woman, you could have been sold to an ottoman leader and if you were a man, you could have been sold as a solder. A dramatic changed occurred when the Europeans (Mainly the Spanish and Portuguese) were able to finally come along the cost of West Africa and sail across the Atlantic to the Americas. With the Portuguese seeing the amount of untapped profit laying dormant in the Americas, they went for it. They kill many native Americans and kidnapped many Africans into slavery.
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They were treated quite well. There was a fixed time of slavery, eg. 5–8 years, and they could often buy their freedom. They were properly fed and children of slaves didn’t automatically become slaves themselves. But this all changed with the arrival of the Europeans. They came and caused havoc in Africa, kidnapping millions of slaves and killing thousands in the process. Almost all of them were taken through, “The middle passage”, a Trans-Atlantic ship carrying hundreds of slaves at a time. As the number of kidnapped slaves rose, they slowly got treated less and less well. They were making so much money from the sugar can cotton, that they could afford to loose some slaves, there were tones more. The Portuguese started seeing them as cargo than as people. Between 1450 and 1800, 12 million African slaves were taken by the Spanish and Portuguese and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. Approximately 2 million of those died in transit. Any rights they had were all eventually taken away and they were all completely …show more content…
This is simple. They just weren’t able to fight back. Even if all of the slaves worked together, they won’t stand a change because they were all weekend from the effects of all the hard labour, of which many people died from. They were rendered helpless to do anything except what the Portuguese want them to do. This also lead many more people into slavery because of the point I previously stated, the Europeans had weapons and because of that, many Africans couldn’t fight back and didn’t have much choice weather they wanted to become a slave or
As an African, before 1440, you might have been sold as a slave. In the 11th century, Muslims brought salt and luxury goods to trade for leather and slaves. If you were a woman, you could have been sold to an ottoman leader and if you were a man, you could have been sold as a solder. A dramatic changed occurred when the Europeans (Mainly the Spanish and Portuguese) were able to finally come along the cost of West Africa and sail across the Atlantic to the Americas. With the Portuguese seeing the amount of untapped profit laying dormant in the Americas, they went for it. They kill many native Americans and kidnapped many Africans into slavery.
People were needed for the workforce …show more content…
They were treated quite well. There was a fixed time of slavery, eg. 5–8 years, and they could often buy their freedom. They were properly fed and children of slaves didn’t automatically become slaves themselves. But this all changed with the arrival of the Europeans. They came and caused havoc in Africa, kidnapping millions of slaves and killing thousands in the process. Almost all of them were taken through, “The middle passage”, a Trans-Atlantic ship carrying hundreds of slaves at a time. As the number of kidnapped slaves rose, they slowly got treated less and less well. They were making so much money from the sugar can cotton, that they could afford to loose some slaves, there were tones more. The Portuguese started seeing them as cargo than as people. Between 1450 and 1800, 12 million African slaves were taken by the Spanish and Portuguese and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. Approximately 2 million of those died in transit. Any rights they had were all eventually taken away and they were all completely …show more content…
This is simple. They just weren’t able to fight back. Even if all of the slaves worked together, they won’t stand a change because they were all weekend from the effects of all the hard labour, of which many people died from. They were rendered helpless to do anything except what the Portuguese want them to do. This also lead many more people into slavery because of the point I previously stated, the Europeans had weapons and because of that, many Africans couldn’t fight back and didn’t have much choice weather they wanted to become a slave or