Impact Of Slavery On African Slave Trade

Slavery has taken place throughout the world since before ancient times, and the act of trading slaves was a common act throughout the world for centuries. The impact on the African slave trade during 16th centuries to 19th centuries was huge. America that had nothing before the trade, started to gain some profit out of farming and increased hugely on population. They used a big amount of African slaves to farm and work. “Europeans brought up 5.5 million African slaves to the Western Hemisphere” (Dodson). Africans traded humans for the materials such as guns, rifles for them to protect themselves from neighbors. The trades for the Africans were needed and this allowed them to protect themselves. This was how huge the impact on the African slave

Women were abused by their master, physically, sexually, and mentally, while men were mostly abused physically and mentally. Most slaves practice polytheistic religions, but they shared the belief in a Supreme Creator. They kept their rituals alive by creating stories, healing arts, and songs. Music and dances played a vital part of practicing their religion. The slaves worked in either a gang or task system. In a task system, slaves were given a certain amount of land that they were expected to have weeded which they worked in unison. These African slaves were expected to work all day long, from dawn till dusk. They were given two to three tasks a day, and they were not allowed to finish their day until all of their tasks were

Initially the head-wrap was worn by both enslaved men and women. As time goes by, it turned into a privileged female accessory. In Fig 3, the ladies wear head-wraps, while the men wear caps. African women used the head-wrap as an expression of their character. The shape of the wrap differed from area to area which signified communal identity. However, in the eyes of the European owners, the slaves’ wraps were indications of poverty and subordination. Records of clothing distribution demonstrate that owners distributed additional handkerchiefs to their female slaves, apparently to be utilized to cover their head. The head-wrap was an identification of enslavement imposed by their owners. There was an enactment that required black women to bound up their hair using the head-wrap in certain areas of the