The arrival of Europeans in the Americas had brought diseases that devastated local populations, which reduced the potential for securing labour from that source; and often too few European came to the Americas to meet the demand for labour. Slavery changed when Europeans became involved, as it led to generation of people being taken from their homelands and enslaved forever. It led to people being legally defined as “Chattel Slaves.” A Chattel Slave is an enslaved person who is owned for their whole lifetime and their children are automatically enslaved. This person is basically a piece of property with no rights. Chattel slaves were supported and made legal by European governments and monarchs. This type of enslavement was practised in European …show more content…
Millions of Africans were enslaved and forced across the Atlantic to labour in plantations in the Caribbean and America. Also, across Europe, there was an organised change in attitudes that grew out of efforts to justify “The TransAtlantic Slave Trade.” Black slaves were especially important as a labour supply for the plantation agriculture that developed in the “New World,” first in Brazil, and later in the Caribbean and the Southern parts of North America. “The Triangular Trade” would start out in a routine; the slave ships from Britain left ports like London, Liverpool and Bristol from West Africa carrying goods such as cloth, guns, ironware, and drink that has been made in Britain. Later, on the West African Coast, these goods would be traded for men, women, and children who had been captured by slave traders or bought from African Chiefs. Second, the African dealers kidnapped people from villages up to hundreds of miles in land. They would attack with pistols and threatened to kill those who did not obey. They held the enslaved Africans until a ship appeared, and then sold them to a European or African