Slavery In Africa

Slavery in Africa has existed for many centuries. It began in the mid-fifteenth century. It depopulated many parts of Africa. The slave trade continued to grow. Multiple types of slavery existed throughout Africa during the slave trade. Before the nineteenth century, European slavers could not survive in the Africans’ rivalries. Using firearms controlled capturing slaves. Before Europeans arrived, Africa had a system of slave commerce. Muslim and Hindu merchants shipped slaves to ports around the Indian Ocean. Over twelve million African’s survived forcible enslavement and shipment to Atlantic ports. The ports became holding pens. Slaves were forced aboard vessels in cramped and wretched conditions. They tossed dead Africans overboard
Although the preferred male laborers, they also kept female laborers, mainly for housework. This setup made it difficult for them to reproduce. In the slave-supplying regions of Africa women outnumbered men. Females were essential because of their roles in the production of grains, leathers, and cotton. The slave trade allowed relatively scarce men to take several wives, which helped minimize the loss of the population during the trade. Local political leaders and merchants were active suppliers during the slave trade. This promoted growth of political structures in West African rain forest areas. The trade shifted control of wealth away from households owning large herds or lands to those who profited from the capture and exchange of slaves. In the slave trade the booming slave trade created chaos as local leaders feuded over control of the traffic. Their populations were vanishing. Europeans fueled these conflicts and provided weapons to their African allies. Kidnapping became so prevalent that farmers worked their fields bearing weapons, leaving their children
Around the eighteenth century a movement to abolish the slave trade came into being in the Western world. One of the main European powers gave for colonizing nearly the entire African continent was the desire to end slave trading and slavery in Africa. Around 20th century, Europeans had defeated most African slave trading states, and the trans- Saharan and East African slave trades came to an end. The complete legal abolition of slavery in Africa did not take place until the 20th century. By then, it was deeply ingrained in the African societies, so it continued illegally. Around the 1930s is when the African slave trade was almost completely eliminated. When the slave trade and slavery ended in Africa it had wide-ranging effects on the African continent. People had difficult times finding ways to get things done without the slaves help. It was difficult to find new ways to organize labor and gain wealth. The African slave trade ended for the betterment of