Date:12th/3/13 History Assignment Topic: Examine the social‚ economic and political effects of the slave trade on West Africa The trans- Atlantic slave trade was a system developed in the late 15th century which exploited and brought the African people into enslavement by transporting them to the colonies of the new world where they served their purpose as a ‘’cheap’’ labour force . As a result of this‚ the slave trade brought about many social‚ economic and political effects on West Africa. Firstly‚
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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 imported
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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‚ Africa‚ North and
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African Slave Trade The transatlantic slave trade occupies a special place in the universal history of slavery for many reasons. One of them are the duration of the slave tradery and ofcourse it’s massive amount of victims - black men and women and even no mercy for the children. When first mentioned‚ this subject brings up a horrifying picture of white men torturing and forceing africans to obey their will and to be quite frankly‚ at first‚ i was embarrased of my skincolor. But the things
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need. Whether slaves were building barrels or building fences‚ making furniture or repairing harnesses people with know-how and skilled capability were in short supply and when found‚ were very expensive. Slavery was very much a part of the southern economy. The way the South operated made it a necessity to have slave labor to harvest the crops of the fields. When the invention of the cotton machine was introduced to the South‚ more cotton could be picked and produced.
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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 removed from their
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The slave revolt in Haiti also known as Saint Domingue gave all man and woman of color freedom and citizenship resulting in a better society. At the time Saint Domingue was ran by the French Colony and was the wealthiest overseas colony due to sugar plantations. “The rebellion was influenced by the French Revolution of 1789 which would be known for human rights‚ universal citizenship‚ and participation in government” . To begin‚ Napoleon Bonaparte‚ the ruler of France freed the slaves under the
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The trans-Atlantic slave trade in pre-colonial Africa had immense repercussions on the continent’s state formation and the political culture that developed. This triangle trade‚ as it is often referred to as‚ began in Europe. Europeans needed raw materials from the colonies in the America’s in order to keep their economy stable. When the Americans did not produce these materials fast enough‚ or in large enough quantities‚ there was a call for slaves. Enslaving Africans fulfilled this need. All in
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Douglass’s‚ What to a slave is the forth of July?‚ is a warning to the nation that slavery is not acceptable‚ due to the human rights of other men. He talks about the hope he has for the nation and believes that slavery‚ for the nation would end‚ by calling slavery‚ the “dark clouds which lower above the horizon.” To make his point about the evils of slavery Douglass writes using biblical analogies paralleling his experiences with slavery‚ to those of Israelites exiting slavery from Egypt. He says
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Years of a Slave Throughout our lives up until this point we have witness one major atrocity after another‚ as if history was made to repeat itself. It is at these times of great adversity that we truly discover just how the human mind and spirit has come to persevere in these dark times and how it exactly does so. it takes the impact of a single event like the enslavement of another human being only to be judged by the color of their skin is where we find a strange sense of community and finding
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