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The document discusses the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade which began in the 17th century. Plantations in the Americas and Caribbean demanded labor, and Africans were forcibly taken to these colonies as slaves. It is estimated that millions of Africans were transported this way by the 18th century, with the numbers doubling from the 17th century. While slavery had existed in Africa, the slave trade with Europeans industrialized and vastly increased the scale. Africans were often captured from other tribes or cultural groups and sold on the coast to European traders. The transport of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic became known as the Middle Passage. The slave trade profoundly impacted societies and economies in both Africa and the Americas.
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For centuries, the trade along a triangular trading route, provided the capital to finance the industrialization of Europe and development of the European economy - trade only possible at the expense of slaves.
The Triangular Trade consisted of three stops:
· The outward passage from Europe to Africa bearing manufactured goods.
· The middle passage from Africa to the Americas bearing African captives.
· The homeward passage from the Americas to Europe carrying sugar, tobacco, cotton, rice, indigo, and cocoa (Source: Triangular Trade).
We know that before the Middle Passage, a slave trade already existed in Africa, but this was different. The Middle Passage was a systematic process of extracting Africans for a specific purpose, as workers stripped of their humanity in the New World.
The ill-fated relationship between the Kongolese and Portuguese evolved over time. While the Portuguese struggled to find an asset with which they could entice the Africans to trade, the shift in their subservient position was gradual. The influx of European goods, particularly firearms, slowly disrupted West African cultures. The technological advancement of gunfire brought the Europeans power and wealth, but for some West Africans is empowered them to more efficiently captured slaves. Religious and political structural division within West African states reinforced the slave system and produced a profitable supply of slaves which were traded for European goods, largely guns. Those communities that captured the most slaves received the most European goods, and were the best equipped to expand their power and prestige in West Africa (Source: Scott).
The Ashantis and Dahomeans specialized in the art of enslaving. Initially cut off from the Europeans by coastal tribes, who acted as middlemen, these two tribes from the interior of Africa, pushed toward the sea, extending their terror as their power increased. In 1727, John Atkins complained that the triumph of Dahomey had destroyed the orderly patterns of the slave trade. Specialized trading states was matched by the arrival of independent traders who sights were set on acquiring slaves quickly for maximum profit (Source: Scott).
It can be argued quite effectively that sugar was the number one crop that produced growth for Europe. Sugar production and potential profits served as the basis for a plantation complex that fueled the need for slaves. Your textbook states that something as evil and gruesome as the Atlantic slave trade was set in motion largely to produce something as apparently benign as sugar. While that is overly simplified, it paints a vivid reality -- trafficking of humans for their labor to satisfy the sweet tooth of Europe and to feed the coffers of capitalists (though they would not have been called capitalists in the 15th century).
Sugar was introduced to Europeans by Muslims during the Crusades. Cultivation began in Cyprus and Sicily at least a centuries before the Portuguese started exploring the ...
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1. Between 1550-1800, European colonization of West Africa and the West Indies increased the demand for slaves to work on sugar plantations.
2. The transition from indentured servants to slaves was driven by declining European immigration and higher slave mortality.
3. The Atlantic slave trade developed into an extensive circuit, transporting slaves from Africa to the Americas and goods from the Americas back to Europe and Africa.
AP WH Chapter 18
Between 1550-1800, European powers established sugar plantations in the West Indies using African slave labor. The sugar industry was highly profitable and drove the growth of the Atlantic slave trade. Plantations were harsh environments that severely exploited slaves and caused ecological damage to the islands. Meanwhile in Africa, European traders partnered with coastal kings to acquire slaves through warfare or kidnapping to meet demand from the plantation colonies. This Atlantic system created vast wealth for European nations and plantation owners while severely damaging millions of African lives.
Slavery Lecture
The document discusses the history of slavery in Africa and its role in the triangular slave trade. It notes that slavery was a normal part of African societies, with slaves often treated well and able to hold positions of responsibility. The slave trade expanded as Islamic traders exported slaves from Africa beginning in the 8th century. Between 1450-1850, approximately 12 million Africans were sent to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade, in which slaves were exchanged for goods that were shipped between Africa, Americas, and Europe. The slave trade had significant impacts on African demographics, politics, and societies.
Africans in the atlantic world
Europeans enslaved Africans and indigenous peoples in the Americas to exploit natural resources and produce lucrative crops. Africans accompanied conquistadors and helped colonize lands while providing much-needed labor as disease killed many native people. While England used indentured servitude, African slaves were ultimately preferred as they were cheaper and caused fewer issues than white laborers. Africans were captured through raids and wars, and the traumatic transatlantic slave trade brought over 12 million Africans to the Americas, where they faced horrific conditions and punishments on plantations until some revolted for freedom. The Spanish initially controlled the Caribbean and Latin America, but other European powers gained control and imported large numbers of slaves who produced commodities but faced high mortality
Africans in the atlantic world
Europeans enslaved Africans and indigenous peoples in the Americas to exploit natural resources and produce lucrative crops. Africans accompanied conquistadors and helped colonize lands while providing forced labor on plantations and mines. High mortality rates among indigenous peoples increased demand for African slaves, who were seen as better suited for the labor and climate. Approximately 12.5 million slaves endured the traumatic Middle Passage to the Americas between the 15th-18th centuries, establishing slave societies in the Caribbean and Latin America producing sugar, tobacco, and other commodities through brutal conditions. Resistance by slaves was common but punishable by severe whippings, hangings, and other cruel acts sanctioned by slave codes.
20.3 the atlantic slave trade (1st period)
The Atlantic slave trade involved the transport of over 9.5 million Africans to the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries. It began as a small enterprise in the 1500s but grew massively, with nearly 1.3 million Africans sold as slaves in the 1600s alone. The triangular trade route saw Europeans exchange goods for slaves from African leaders, who then transported the slaves across the Atlantic to be sold to Americans and forced to work plantations. The Middle Passage of this route saw horrific conditions that caused many slave deaths. African slaves faced immense cruelty and hardship through forced labor on American plantations. Some resisted through slow work or rebellion, but the slave trade profoundly impacted societies in Africa, Europe, and the
caribbean history
The document discusses the period of colonization in the Caribbean between the 17th-19th centuries. It describes how European powers like Britain, France, Spain, and the Netherlands colonized various Caribbean islands and established plantation economies dependent on African slave labor. Slavery resulted in the genocide and oppression of Africans, but slaves resisted through maroon communities, revolts, and maintaining aspects of their culture. The document also covers emancipation in the 1800s, the use of indentured servants from Asia, and how newly freed groups established independent communities and economic activities in the post-slavery period.
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Enslaved Africans were brought to the Americas beginning in the 1500s by Spanish and Portuguese settlers, with slavery later spreading to British, Dutch, and French colonies. Over 10 million enslaved Africans were transported in the brutal Middle Passage, where many died due to poor conditions. In the colonies, enslaved Africans faced auction and family separation, with laws restricting their rights. African culture influenced colonial American culture through crafts, music, and folktales.
Triangular trade
The document summarizes the triangular trade route that developed between Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the 16th-18th centuries. It describes how the demand for slaves in European colonies led to the establishment of the slave trade, with goods being shipped from Europe to Africa, enslaved people from Africa to the Americas, and raw materials from the Americas back to Europe. The slave trade was driven by the growth of sugar plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean, which required large amounts of forced labor and led to millions of Africans being captured and sold into the system of slavery.
Latin America Triangular Trade
1. With the arrival of Europeans in Latin America, the demand for slaves increased to provide labor as native populations declined due to disease.
2. The Portuguese established sugar plantations in Brazil that relied heavily on slave labor, making Brazil very wealthy.
3. The triangular slave trade route developed to transport goods from Europe to Africa, slaves from Africa to the Americas, and raw materials from the Americas back to Europe for profit.
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