Read p.435-440 notes/MI The Atlantic slave trade MI: Trade was the basis of Portuguese relations with Africans‚ the Portuguese provided African rulers with slaves in return they received ivory‚ pepper‚ animal skin and gold. · Portuguese ships pushed down the west of Africa coast and reached the cape of good hope · They established factories‚ forts and trading posts with resident merchants‚ along the cost · El mina(1482) was the most important‚ it was a gold producing region · Africans
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in inconceivable amounts. This mass trade of humans‚ known as the Atlantic Slave Trade‚ spanned multiple continents and resulted in Africans being forcibly removed from their homeland and to be sold and traded as property. This is known as the most voluminous trade of humans in history‚ and preceded centuries worth of suffering of which essentially created the devastation of an entire race of people in the interest of land and wealth. The Atlantic Slave Trade had routes that spanned from Europe
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For 366 years the Atlantic economies of European Imperial powers were fueled by the Atlantic Slave Trade. The slave trade dominated life in the Atlantic world influencing the political‚ economic‚ cultural and demographic aspects of life. Beginning with the Portuguese in the 1400s‚ European powers competed to expanded their spheres of influence both formally and informally through colonization in the New World and through economic exploration of slave labour from western Africa. Africans were forcible
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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (Essay) The Trans-Atlantic slave trade had a massive impact the British‚ West Indies‚ Africa‚ and the emerging African American culture. The British were impacted with massive profits‚ to the disadvantage of many parts of Africa‚ where large amounts of men and women from all around the continent were forced into slavery. The West Indies were impacted by being turned into sugar plantations‚ and an African American Culture was born from all the African slaves that were
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The role of trans-Atlantic trade and Great Britain’s mercantilist policies in the economic development of the British North American colonies in the period from 1650 to 1750 was to create the colonies into self-sufficient areas of living. Triangular trade within the United States‚ Great Britain‚ the West Indies‚ and Africa helped to distribute and/or import and export essential factors. The theory of mercantilism is “that a state should be as economically self-sufficient as possible” and it stipulates
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economic growth in Europe‚ an abundance of resources in the Americas‚ and the availability of slaves in Africa created a perfect storm that interrupted some continuities from before. Africa was a patriarchal society. As they participated in the slave trade the male population dropped because of the high demand of male slaves in the Americas. This caused a gender imbalance in Africa‚ forcing many of the male roles and responsibilities to be taken on by the women. When the Americas were first founded
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Africa has seen four great phases of slave trades. The trans-Saharan‚ Red Sea and Indian Ocean slave trades are oldest slave trades which the continent experienced during 800 AD. In these slave trades‚ Africans were carried from the southern Saharan desert‚ internal of the Red Sea‚ and internal of the coast of Eastern Africa‚ and were transported to Northern Africa and the Middle East. Trans-Atlantic Slave trade is the most researched and a largest slave trade of all during Africa. In the early 1500s
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The Trans-Atlantic Trade System refers to all of the trade done between Europe‚ Africa‚ and the Americas across the Atlantic Ocean. Sugar‚ slaves‚ and spirits fueled the entire triangular trade. Slaves were exchanged from Africa for rum‚ rum was produced as a byproduct of sugar‚ sugar was grown by slaves in the Americas‚ and Europe developed manufactured goods to aid the production of sugar. All three continents and their exports fit together to form the Trans-Atlantic Trade System. Plantation systems
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“Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade” The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was one of the most horrific things to happen to any group of people closely relating to the Jewish Holocaust. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was actually often referred to as the “Holocaust of Enslavement” which was basically the incarceration and imprisonment of people not for committing criminal offenses but to be put to work for others. The “Areas that were involved in the European slave trade eventually prospered.” (Aca Demon) These
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1. 2. The Atlantic Slave Trade - enslaved about 10 to 15 million Africans in South America‚ the Caribbean and North America. - The Atlantic slave trade started in the 16th century and lasted until the mid-19th century. - The slave trades‚ both of them‚ was an enormous population‚ labor and brain drain on Africa. - young and those best able to work. - This removes men and women who would reproduce and add their children to Africa’s population.
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