The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
INTRODUCTION
According to Hamilton-Willie D. 2001, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was the most abominable and cruel form of slavery, Greenwood R. and Hamber S. 2003stated that it was neither the first nor the only form of slave trade. Slavery was recognized around the world long before the Egyptians enslaved the Jews. Slavery was not just about the black people who endured the Middle Passage. It was a part of human history. Worldwide, domestic slavery was the most common form of enslavement. Rich men had slaves in their households, and, in some societies, the number of slaves determined his social status. In West Africa, slavery had already existed. The labour supply for West Indian sugar plantations came from West Africa. The ships left one of three slave trading ports, in England (London, Bristoland Liverpool), France (Bordeaux and Nantes) and the Netherlands (Dutch and Amsterdam) to the Caribbean (Bridgetown, Kingston and Castries). …show more content…
The Amerindians who had taken the space as the Europeans slaves decreased and white indentured labourers were not use to the hard work which was needed for the production of sugar.
Africans were obtained in many ways, a few of these are that they were captured in raids, they were already slaves and their masters decided to trade them for goods to the Europeans. Some were kidnapped, and others had been put into slavery because they did offences.
The impact on West Africa was extreme, their population decreased, children, the sickly and the old were left without someone to look after them. African crop cultivations decreased, their industries were destroyed. Crafts such as iron-working and weaving declined. The Europeans took their most valuable raw material preventing the country to not be able to advance in the new technological era of those
According to Hamilton-Willie D. 2001, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was the most abominable and cruel form of slavery, Greenwood R. and Hamber S. 2003stated that it was neither the first nor the only form of slave trade. Slavery was recognized around the world long before the Egyptians enslaved the Jews. Slavery was not just about the black people who endured the Middle Passage. It was a part of human history. Worldwide, domestic slavery was the most common form of enslavement. Rich men had slaves in their households, and, in some societies, the number of slaves determined his social status. In West Africa, slavery had already existed. The labour supply for West Indian sugar plantations came from West Africa. The ships left one of three slave trading ports, in England (London, Bristoland Liverpool), France (Bordeaux and Nantes) and the Netherlands (Dutch and Amsterdam) to the Caribbean (Bridgetown, Kingston and Castries). …show more content…
The Amerindians who had taken the space as the Europeans slaves decreased and white indentured labourers were not use to the hard work which was needed for the production of sugar.
Africans were obtained in many ways, a few of these are that they were captured in raids, they were already slaves and their masters decided to trade them for goods to the Europeans. Some were kidnapped, and others had been put into slavery because they did offences.
The impact on West Africa was extreme, their population decreased, children, the sickly and the old were left without someone to look after them. African crop cultivations decreased, their industries were destroyed. Crafts such as iron-working and weaving declined. The Europeans took their most valuable raw material preventing the country to not be able to advance in the new technological era of those