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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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    ways and reasons in which the slave trade in colonial Charleston‚ South Carolina was so relevant are surprisingly interesting. The slave trade was important economically and capitalistically speaking: the economy highly depended on the slave trade and was literally dominated by it in some states. Besides the economy‚ other reasons of its importance were implied in politics and business: what made it really big in Charleston and in South Carolina in general was that slaves ended constituting the majority

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    Additionally‚ the large spike in African slaves being imported to Spain and Britain is due to how both countries had periods of time in which they dominate the slave trade in the Atlantic Ocean. In the 16th century‚ Spain is one of the two powers that dominates the Atlantic slave trade (Chattel Slavery‚ Slide 2)‚ making it easier for them to have access to African traders. Consequently‚ during that time that sugar plantations were flourishing in the Canaries and silver mining were spreading in Central

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    The renaissance had a large impact on many things in Europe involving the rebirth of culture and arts‚ and it also left behind a new spirit of curiosity and adventure. The new desire for adventure and thrill led to the European Age of Exploration. Europeans seemed answers to feed their curiosity‚ so as a result they decided to embark on voyages to discover what was beyond their borders. By the beginning of the fourteenth century‚ the Europeans striving for knowledge about the world around them‚ along

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    horror of the slave trade? In order to understand what lay behind the horror of the slave trade you first need to know how the slave trade worked firstly the slave trade was a cruel and bad thing to do it worked when one of the European boat went to the Atlantic ocean they would go to the small villages from Africa such as Ghana and the Europeans would take guns‚ cloth and alcohol to Africa‚ trade it for some Africans to be their slaves secondly the European would take the slaves to America finally

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    On impact did the Jim Crow era have on African Americans achieving equal opportunities in the American society is that when African Americans moved up north and join unions to protest Jim Crow laws. In Franklin D. Roosevelt’s era‚ the overall attitude of the Court progressively change from pro-states’ rights to a concerned that the administration of the Bill of Rights and the protection of rights. This was primarily due to the newly appointed of four new Supreme Court Justices not to moral deviations

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    parallel one another in a way in which the laborer is dehumanized. The slave or laborer no longer has an identity to him or her‚ but is instead just a faceless human who performs labor-intensive duties to provide for him or herself or to the family. Yaeger describes the slaves in the triangular trade just as flesh‚ not an actual human being‚ therefore accentuating the loss in the sense of identity to each slave. The “flesh” on the slave ship is nothing more than just an object that can be overworked and

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    In what ways did the Commercial Revolution of the 16th centuary change the social structure of the west? During the Commercial Revolution of the 16th century the West’s social structure was altered by an increase in trade and price inflation‚ which subsequently led to the creation of a new working class. The increase in trade during the commercial Revolution created a symbiotic relationship with the increasing involvement of merchants and markets that made new goods available to the European people

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    History 2010 Question #3: Discuss the extent to which the transatlantic trade in Africans was a continuation of the social and economic structures that already existed in West Africa. The people of West Africa had a rich and varied history and culture long before European slavers arrived. Art‚ learning and technology flourished and Africans were especially skilled in subjects like medicine‚ mathematics and astronomy. As well as domestic goods‚ they made fine luxury items

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    images of brutal beatings and unfair slave practices. After reading Uncle Tom ’s Cabin thousand of northerners became impassioned for the anti-slavery cause. Uncle Tom ’s Cabin helped eventually to turn the tide of public opinion against slavery in the 19th century( Taylor 1). <br> <br>This controversial novel was initially written to question slavery‚ convince people of its immorality and to promote the abolitionist cause. The novel ’s rendering of the slave holding south is not entirely an accurate

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