In the 15th century the migration of Africans to North America grew exponentially. The trans-Atlantic slave trade occurred as early as 1502, when the first African slaves were introduced and lasted roughly around the late 1900’s. About 6 million slaves were sent eastward from West Africa between 1500 and 1900, an estimated 10 million were sent to the Americas. The transatlantic slave trade decreased Africa’s total population and now the African race will be thought as by many as an inferior race. During this mass amount of migration the effects on West Africa economically, politically, and socially were almost unimaginable. During the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Africa was effected economically with the slave trade in full affect. West
The Atlantic slave trade was a huge business which had a significant impact in modern world history. For four centuries, its geographical scope encompassed four continents. Over the span of time its impact affected millions of people, and its consequences are still evident in some ways today. One such victim was Olaudah Equiano, who was from in or around what is now Nigeria. At the age of eleven he was kidnapped along with his sister and was sold in the Atlantic slave trade.
Columbian Exchange is “the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases from the Old World to the New World and from the New World to the Old World” (Patterns, p.515. The Columbian Exchange brought with them diseases and livestock such as horse. The Columbian Exchange brought new populations of both the Europeans and Africans to the New World. The Columbian Exchange impacted the social and cultural aspect of both the New World and Old World.
Due to the Atlantic Slave trade, exporting slaves increased across Southern Africa and Europe. The victims in slavery continued subjection to hard labor, abuse and profit exchange. The Portuguese were first responsible for exporting Muslims. These slavery practices disintegrated cultures, and relations. The Europeans bear responsibility for exporting slaves from Africa, while the Portuguese bears responsibility for African slave raiders.
Furthermore, these slaves were transported on a “slave ship” which tightly held 562 slaves and were infiltrated with life-threatening diseases (Document 7). While aboard the ship, the slaves were branded with their owner’s mark and were crammed so tightly into the ship that they couldn’t even slightly change their position (Documents 7 & 8). Since European ports facilitated goods entering by sea, slaves were traded in these crowded ports and were then taken to the New World (Document 6). The slave trade not only had an impact on Africa as it caused small African states to disappear and new powerful kingdoms to arrive, but also affected the economic development of the New World and introduced debilitating diseases there as
Europeans and Africans were close neighbors and allies, until the Europeans got lazy and greedy and jumped to the conclusion that if they to their loyal neighbors into slavery then all of their problems would be solved. In the mid- 15th century the Africans and Europeans broke their alliance as the Africans had been betrayed for money and labor. The Europeans got very greedy and sold their neighbors for a large amount of money, or used them for personal labor. During the middle passage the Africans were beaten and starved to death. The journey through the middle passage and the slave trade experience caused physical,emotional, and social pain among the captured Africans who were separated from family, treated with mounds of disrespect, and forced to make life changing delicious that could lead to brutal punishments.
Millions of African men, women, and children were plucked from their homes and shipped over to the colonies in exchange for goods. As a result of the absence of humanitarian concerns, slaves during the period of Atlantic
The slave trade going on during the 15th-19th centuries was mostly that of African slaves being brought over to the Americas by Europeans. But before that happened African citizens led their own part in ensuring enough slaves were available for trade: either by giving up captives of their kingdoms or by even kidnapping African people. Slaves contributed largely to the economy and were seen as replaceable, so they were treated as harshly as masters saw fit. The Atlantic slave trade brought prosperity Europeans and brought harm to many west Africans: Cruelty and slavery bringing about a social change in how Africans were treated in society, depopulation of Africans as a result of the kidnapping and harsh conditions under European slave owners,
The Columbian Exchange The Columbian Exchange changed the course of the world by paving the way countries and societies trade with each other. Through the exchange, continents introduced products that were endemic to their own ground with one another. Most of these products were vegetation, including corn, potatoes, beans, rice, wheat, and bananas. Horses, pigs, and cows were some of the animals involved in the interchange. Culture was another unique attribution made to the Exchange.
Between the 1500s and the 1900s, Europeans forcibly uprooted millions of people from throughout West Africa and West Central Africa and shipped them across the Atlantic in conditions of great cruelty. The transatlantic slave trade was responsible for the forced migration of between 12-15 million people. European slavers dispersed them across the Americas to lead lives of degradation and brutality. As a result, people of African descent are spread throughout the Americas and Western Europe. This is called the African Diaspora.
1750 – 1850 was an extremely busy time period. Great Britain was expanding, its empire was being built and there was also the establishment of many new colonies. People were moving more than ever before. They were being lured from their countries because of the offer of land and the discovery of gold. People were also being pushed out of their countries by the impact of overcrowded prisons and slavery.
I. Slavery and the Empire A. Atlantic Trade 1. “Triangular Trade” a. Africa, Europe, America 2. Caused the racism 3. Central to world economy B. Africa and the Slave Trade 1. African elites sold their people to slavery.
The Trans-Atlantic slave trade impacted and changed the world by misplacing and separating thousands of individuals from their families and homes. Thousands of people lost their lives when they were abducted and forced into slavery. Many did not survive the ship rides to the Americas. Many were murdered and tortured. Some were thrown of boats and died from diseases caught on the ship.
There are no acceptable number of slaves that were brought out of Africa though considering that “within twenty years period, 320,000 Igbos were sold in Bonny, while another 50,000 were sold at Calabar” (Nwabueze, 1984, p.75), a very huge number people must have been sold to the merchant ships the period which transatlantic slave trade lasted. "Scholars in many primary studies have estimated about ten million West Africans crossed the Atlantic that between 1450 and 18502" (Ume, 1980, p.5), that’s almost the population of Sweden today. Does it mean that slave trade had no positive impact on the part of the “natives” apart from the widely known fact that some local chiefs and slave traders benefited from the sale of human beings? Arowolo (2010) while quoting (Standage, 2005) argued that "It is significant to note the contribution that Diaspora blacks were later to make to the process of Westernization in Africa, notably through their role in Christian evangelization and
The Atlantic slave trade was what greatly enabled the flow of European culture and values to the
“The African Diaspora refers to the communities throughout the world that are descended from the historic movement of peoples from Africa, predominantly to the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, among other areas worldwide”[African Union]. The term ‘Diaspora’ historically applies to the successors of the West and Central Africans who were enslaved and shipped to the Americas in the Atlantic slave trade, with the largest population being Brazil, followed by the USA and others. Much of the African Diaspora was distributed throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas during the Atlantic slave trade. In the 8th century, Arabs took African slaves from the central and eastern portions of the continent sold them into markets in the Middle East and eastern Asia and at the beginning of the 15th century, Europeans captured/purchased African slaves from West Africa and brought them to Europe in much greater numbers to the Americas