Africa And The Atlantic World Chapter Summary

Africa and the Atlantic world explores the trials and tribulations of Africans being forced from their homeland and sold into slavery. Africans endured such hardships and conditions that their souls vanished with the site of mother Africa. Europeans sold and forced slaves to cultivate sugar plantations for their own profits. The Americas, Europe and Africa were involved in a cross continental system of human trafficking. African men, woman and children were shipped across the Atlantic to the Americas. Africans who survived being rapped, malnutrition, dehydration and being tortured on the voyage were sold to European masters and forced to be slaves on plantations.
The first major development comes in 1417, when Prince Henry of Portugal seized the Madeira Islands off the northern part of West Africa. In 1450, Portugal created the
From Garrido and Gonzales helping to seize Puerto Rico to the Africans who helped seize the Capital of Tenochtitlan and the conquest of the Incas in Peru. This is the most important to me because it showed the true heart of the soldier and navigation spirit of the African people.
The event that interested me the least was a fact that Equiano recalled on the slave ship. “Even known them (sailors) to gratify their brutal passion with females not ten years old.” This event showed the true nature of slave ship owners who rationalized human trafficking based on the fact that Africans were heathens, who in fact themselves were the true ungodly people.
In the last decade American historians may have considered that Africans were responsible for the Trans Atlantic slave trade because of the facts that African chiefs did in fact sell slaves to Europeans. In my opinion if Europeans did not expand into Africa territories and corrupt the African people with guns and power there may have never been an African slave