How Did Slavery Affect The African Americans

The Atlantic slave trade is considered to be the largest and most revolting forced migration of human beings to ever be recorded. The migrations, which totaled approximately twelve to fifteen million Africans, sailed across the Atlantic to work in fields, mines, and many other places between the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Slavery around this time was not uncommon, therefore not looked down upon by most societies. This took away the moral disadvantage of slavery, and looked towards the potential opportunities. The people in Europe could rarely receive a profit from European-grown crops. With the newly acquirable land in the New World, they needed a large work force. The Africans were also very cheap to buy and move. This proved to be useful because the Native Americans and Indentured servants were not considered to be “good workers.”
For this reason, Europe could not always produce a large amount of products at one time. With the settling of the “New World,” things changed quite drastically. Certain crops could be grown much easier in particular areas, such as cotton, tobacco, and sugar in what is today known as the “Deep South.” There were also mines that could be tapped, wood to be cut, and ships to be built in the New World. Europeans wanted to exploit this new land for their own gains, but in order to make a profit off of these crops and textiles; they would need a very large workforce. One of the main ways the Europeans received more workers was by what was called indentured servitude, which allowed young European males to have the possibility of making a new life for themselves in new lands. However, indentured servitude was not very successful because it did not provide enough people to work the