The Atlantic Slave Trade

Based on chapters nine, ten and the videos we have seen, I will be writing an essay about the rise and decline of the Atlantic Slave Trade. The Atlantic Slave Trade has an extensive time line lasting from 1502 until around 1830. The first event to happen in the slave trade was in 1502 when the first reported African slaves came into the New World. In 1640-1680, the introduction of African slave labor in the British Caribbean for sugar production became much more realistic on a very large-scale. In 1791, the Haitian Revolution begins. This revolution brings with it a slave uprising in the French West Indian colony of Santo Domingo. Ten years after this, the black nation of Haiti was established, due to the revolution. In the year 1793, a large
After this, people are starting to realize how harsh the slave trade actually is and in 1803, Denmark becomes the first to ban the slave trade. Shortly after, in 1807, the head slave-trading nation, Britain, bans the slave trade, as well as the United States. Over the years, Britain and Spain will sign a treaty banning the slave trade and countries start to enforce punishment for anyone who is caught being involved in the acts of slave trading. All of Africa was deeply affected by the slave trade but one area in particular was West Africa. West Africa was affected in many ways by the slave trade but in one area particular was within the tribes that lived there. The whites often traded guns for slaves and the Africans used the guns for harmful situations such as using them to capture more slaves from opposing tribes. This caused inter-tribal wars and created an increase in violence as well as economic panic. The trade also affected the attitudes of the people living here. As the violence increased, the people’s patience
Not only in this region, but also in many places throughout Africa, families would relocate to random, remote places where nobody else was around. The families would move by themselves or with family and friends that they trusted greatly, due to the betrayal going on around them. From 1750-1914, the Atlantic Slave Trade affected the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution was times when machines started to become manufactured and new ideas and big things were coming. Since this was happening during the time of slavery, it reduced the value of labor. The people created machines so that the machines could do work that the slaves were doing prior. The value of slaves eventually decreased and many plantations were shut down as people started to grow a greater sense on how horrible slavery really was. A big reason things became more industrialized was because using people as labor cost more money than a machine. A person cost more money than a machine because you have to care for a person, feeding them, giving them a place to sleep, taking care of them medically, and giving them clothes to wear. While these listed above were minimal, it still added up and cost more than a machine, which cost a lot less a