The African Slave trade: African slaves and the Trans Atlantic‚ Triangular Trade. A short history of the Trans Atlantic slave trade. How did African Slavery begin? For many centuries‚ Africans were a commodity‚ like land tax‚ they were expendable to the Congo chiefs. In 1440‚The Portuguese realised this‚ and so‚ as well as exploiting Africa for it’s gold and spices‚ they also had a monopoly on the African slave trade. They needed a labour force for their sugar plantations and mines in Brazil
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People in power often dictate recordings of history‚ but the Atlantic slave trade found an exception to this pattern. Documents from both enslavers and enslaved of this time regarding management of captives provide an insight on the treatment of slaves in the middle passage. Data from both parties clearly illustrates slave trading as a massive industry‚ and one where enslavers valued efficiency over the well-being of captives to garner the maximum possible profit. Conditions illustrated in these
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In this lecture I leaned about the Atlantic slave trade. Specifically how brutal the conditions on the sugar plantations slaves had to work on in Brazil were. They worked long and tedious hours. Almost 14 hours a day filled with back breaking labor. Since the labor was difficult‚ many slaves died at a young age thus slaves being imported to the Americas increased. Where did the idea of slavery come from? Slavery in the Atlantic was a combination of ideas past empires in Eurasia believed in
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Slavery Today‚ many people don’t know why or how slavery came to be. The causes and effects of slavery in the atlantic world for Europeans‚ native Americans And Africans. Europeans originally used indentured servants from europe and Native Americans as slaves in the americas . Shortly after‚ the Native Americans started to die from european diseases. Indentured servants are people from europe who wanted land in the americas but couldn’t afford it. So they came over and work for seven years as
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country-systems where trade happens without governmental‚ or any other interference‚ no tariffs or any other barriers. The goal of free trade areas is to eliminate exactly these hurdles for free trade. Free trade areas are trade blocs consisting of states who signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) which eliminates things as tariffs‚ import quotas and preferences on‚ in the best case‚ all goods and services between them. The goal of such FTA’s basically is to reduce barriers to exchange so that trade can grow.
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that took place in the African slave trade in the 1500s. Describe the Middle Passage and its toll. Initially African slave traders transported African slaves across the Sahara to Muslim lands to the north and east. Later Portuguese slave traders shipped African slaves across the Atlantic to the plantations Millions of slaves were mistreated over the course of 300 years. Two million slaves may have died of disease and mistreatment as they crossed the Atlantic. © 2011 K12 Inc. All rights reserved
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Slavery: The Economic Backbone of the Atlantic Before the 1500s “the European economic system was based on a principle known as mercantilism [and] the primary commodity was still agricultural produce but Europe was generally in poor condition.” Due to the Bubonic Plague‚ The Black Death‚ many European citizens lost their lives. “The fall in population forced up wages in the towns.” With most of their workforce gone‚ and an increase in wages being demanded is what paved the way for another‚ cheaper
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Transformations in The Atlantic World When the exchange of people‚ plants‚ and animals began because of the Columbian exchange the new and old worlds underwent some serious change. Ideas‚ peoples‚ and goods were swapped between Western Europe‚ Africa‚ and the America through series of trade systems. The Atlantic trade system allowed more then just goods and slaves to be sent around all of the Atlantic world. The Columbian exchange and Atlantic trade system allowed both social and economic
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Did African’s participate in the Atlantic Slave Trade as equal partners‚ or were they the victims of European power and greed? The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade (TAST) was the selling of and transportation of slaves from African lands across the Atlantic to lands such as Brazil‚ Spanish Empire‚ British‚ French‚ Dutch and Danish West Indies‚ the British North America and US‚ along with Europe. It is estimated that as many as 13 million slaves left African ports (although only 11 million arrived to
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Atlantic Revolutions were the wave of revolutions that happened between 1750 and 1914. “the states and empires of Europe were wrack by uprisings‚ revolutions‚ and wars”‚ at that period of time‚ the empires of Europe were filled with atmosphere of revolutions. For example‚ the North American Revolution (1775-1787)‚ the French Revolution (1789-1815)‚ the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) and the Spanish American Revolutions (1810-1825). What were the reasons for this wave of revolutions occurred in the
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