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    Slave Trade: From the African Point of View Powerful kingdoms‚ beautiful sculpture‚ complex trade‚ tremendous wealth‚ centers for advanced learning — all are hallmarks of African civilization on the eve of the age of exploration. Hardly living up to the "dark continent" label given by European adventurers‚ Africa’s cultural heritage runs deep. Although primarily agricultural‚ West Africans held many occupations. Some were hunters and fishers. Merchants traded with other African communities‚

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    Slavery is the practice for one to enslave another as their own property. Modern slave trade took place in between the mid 1500’s to the late 1800’s. Primarily the Europeans and many powerful African leaders were included within the slave trade. The prime reason the slave trade took place was because a larger labor force allowed for immense profits in Europe and the new world. As a result of the slave tradeslaves experienced harsh and inhumane social‚ emotional‚ and physical tortures. African

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    Trading or Slave trading Era as slaves were sold and bought on a huge scale. 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

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    American Slave Trade It is said that all humans are created equally. Everyone has the same basic rights as a human being no matter who they are‚ what they own‚ or where they are from. Any individuals cannot be accredited to deprive any others’ basic rights‚ which are given as humans. However‚ slavery of Africans has breached this truth since the 17th century‚ especially in the United States. When comparing Lawrence Hill’s novel The Book of Negroes to historical facts of the slavery trade in America

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    of slavery after the 15th century? Slavery existed long before the original slaves came to America. In fact‚ slavery prior to the 14th century differed greatly from slavery after the 15th century. Slavery was essential to many economic and social structures. For example‚ ancient Greece and Rome had many slaves. They differed from the form of slavery after the 15th century‚ though‚ due to the background of their slaves. Slavery was not necessarily racial or ethnic in origin prior to 15th century

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    What is the slave trade triangle? Slave Triangle- the three stages of the voyage that were made by slave trading ships: from Europe to Africa‚ from Africa to America and from America back to Europe between the 17th and 19th centuries. (It formed a triangular trade pattern‚ hence the name ’The Slave Triangle). Stage 1: In Africa‚ European slave traders bought enslaved Africans in exchange for goods shipped from Europe. Stage 2: Also called the ’Middle Passage’. This was the part of the triangle

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    Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: How it Affected Africa The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was the largest connection between the Old and the New World in the 15th through the 19th centureis. The route went from Europe to Africa‚ Africa to the New World‚ and then the New World to Europe again. This route was used for slave trade with Africa and was used for centuries. Africans allowed this trade of slaves because the people being sent away were their rivals. Tribes that participated in the trading used

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    peasant labor in the vast region of Siberia intensified. Many workers were involved in the fur trade or the mining of copper and silver. Unlike India Russia utilized a system of serfdom‚ in which many poor serfs were bound to a property owned by a wealthy landlord who oversaw them. 2. The slave trade from Africa to the Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean long predated the arrival of Europeans. A trans-saharan trade route connected to the Nile River was utilized by Arabs to move people from Sub-Saharan Africa

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    HIS295H5 Sarah Medeiros Wednesday‚ April 2nd‚ 2014 Neil Marshall 999681704 Book Review: An African Slaving Port on the Atlantic‚ by Mariana Candido The impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade on the people living in Angola during the seventeenth century onwards was monumental. The Portuguese presence in the Benguelan harbour caused disorder‚ social strain‚ and sociocultural transformation for the people specifically residing in Benguela. In the study An African Slaving Port on the Atlantic

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    SLAVE TRADE DATABASE EXERCISE QUESTIONS/QUERIES In 1732‚ the slave ship Diligent under Captain Pierre Mary purchased slaves from Jacquin and transported them to Martinique. In 1655‚ the slave ship‚ Witte Paard‚ arrived in New York with 391 slaves. From 1607 to 1650‚ how many voyages listed the principle region of slave landing in Mainland North America? 1 In what year did it arrive with slaves? 1628 What was the name of the vessel? Good Fortune How many slave voyages were listed for the

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