Europeans had taken africans into slavery around 1400-1560, they were taken because labor was much cheaper. Due to slavery their economy was boosted, the economy grew but african families had been split apart. Many men needed slaves for hard work, labor but some older woman usually the mothers or grandmothers were used inside homes to help cook and look after the children, they were also seen as maids to clean the house do dishes ect. Slaves had great experience in the fields also, they were used to taking care of cattle and had been adapted to tropical climate in which people of the “New World” could not work due to sickness, disease. The Africans have had some immunity to the illness, disease because they have lived in and worked on land with similar climate. …show more content…
These people were sent in by the thousands across the Atlantic Ocean and to Spain, Britain, Dutch and Danish west indies. Since the start of the European development in the New Worlds colonies the Portuguese learned they can make money from transporting the slaves, by the seventeenth century production had expanded as did the number of slaves required to do the job. Due to the improved production, an estimated 1.3 million people had been exported on the trade route. Production kept increasing and so did the number of slaves, by the eighteenth century over 6 million had been taken from their homes by their own people and taken into slavery. By the nineteenth century the Trans-Atlantic trade had been banned. West african population was dramatically reduced around 1807, this had caused them to begin looking further in the country for