How Did African Slave Trade End

African Slave Trade and Slavery until the End

The African population from the 1500’s to the 1800’s was treated inhumanly, enslaved and put to work on plantations, forced to grow many goods for trade. The Europeans chose the African people for a few reasons: There culture, build and being used to hard labor. The African Slave Trade was the largest migration of people in the world. Twelve million moved but only Ten million made it alive. There was a passage that the Europeans used during the African Slave Trade called the Middle Passage for simpler transport. On this middle passage, the treatment of the slaves was horrific and many did not survive the journey.
Once in the New World, treatment of the slaves did not get any better. The Slave owner/Slave relationship was not good at all. Slaves did contribute to the formation of their own social and religious ways. Many people did believe that slavery was the wrong thing to do to a person and outburst of support opened around the world. This idea of freedom gave the slaves the courage to escape and had ways of doing so. Haiti was an important part of the history of slavery and is important to review.
Why did the Europeans take the African’s for slaves? African’s used slavery as a part of their
In France in the 1700’s a revolution of San Dome was declared. The fighting happened until the win of San Dome happened and they declared themselves free and changed their name to Haiti. In the Americas you could run away but there were strict laws if you were caught. The slaves escaped to the North where Slavery was not allowed. Fredrick Douglass was a slave that escaped and got an education. Douglass wrote a biography and argued for the end of slavery. John Brown led a revolt on Harpers Ferry in 1859. The Underground Railroad was an escape route that white abolitionists and free blacks made to help slaves escape to the north