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    The Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade began when Portuguese interests in Africa moved away from the legendary deposits of gold to a much more readily available commodity – slaves‚ around the mid-fifteenth century. The plantation economies of the New World were built on slave labour. Seventy percent of the slaves brought to the new world were used to produce sugar‚ the most labour-intensive crop. The rest were employed harvesting coffee‚ cotton‚ and tobacco‚ and

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    Read p.435-440 notes/MI The Atlantic slave trade MI: Trade was the basis of Portuguese relations with Africans‚ the Portuguese provided African rulers with slaves in return they received ivory‚ pepper‚ animal skin and gold. · Portuguese ships pushed down the west of Africa coast and reached the cape of good hope · They established factories‚ forts and trading posts with resident merchants‚ along the cost · El mina(1482) was the most important‚ it was a gold producing region · Africans

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    Consequences of the Slave Trade…… Why go back five centuries to start an explanation of Africa’s crisis in the late 1990s? Must every story of Africa’s political and economic under-development begin with the contact with Europe? The reason for looking back is that the root of the crisis facing African societies is their failure to come to terms with the consequences of that contact. Start 15th century- Expanding European empires in the New World lacked one major resource -- a work force. In most

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    The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade A slave can be defined as a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another‚ a bond servant or a person entirely under the domination of some influence or person. Slavery was well recognized in many early civilizations. Ancient Egypt‚ Ancient China‚ the Akkad Ian Empire‚ Assyria‚ Ancient India‚ Ancient Greece‚ the Roman Empire‚ the Islamic Caliphate‚ the Hebrews in Palestine‚ and the pre-Columbian civilizations of the Americas all had either a form of

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    system; an effective way of trade between the Americas and Eurasia‚ but also the cause of countless deaths of African slaves. During the time of the Atlantic System‚ sugar was one of the most crucial trade items‚ as well as tobacco‚ gold‚ and silver. As the Caribbean colonies were becoming mass producers of sugar in the Atlantic World‚ a new era of African slave trade began to grow along with it. The economic factors that influenced the expansion of slavery and slave trade were the harsh conditions

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    Slave Trade Simulation

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    Slave Trade Simulation Paper 26 February 2013 Modern World ONL Trading slaves‚ a practice that has been described as inhumane‚ evil‚ or even blasphemous‚ left little room for sensitivity for those making the decisions of the trade. Often people wonder how such evil could continue in the world for as long as it did. “The rewards of the slave trade overwhelmed any religious inhibitions that some of the traders and other beneficiaries might have had.”1 [Islam’s Black Slaves‚ p. 159] I will explain

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    Dutch Slave Trade During the 17th and 18th centuries‚ mercantilism was the emerging economic policy through which the slave trade developed in Europe. In the Netherlands many historical events gave rise to a desire for domination of international trade. They were serious tradesman and were heavily involved in the profitable business of slavery. The Dutch‚ intelligent and self-ruling tradesmen took no time in displaying their dominance over rival countries‚ Portugal‚ England and Spain‚ in

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    The translantic slave trade The best-known triangular trading method is the transatlantic slave trade‚ that operated from the late 16th to early 19th centuries‚ carrying slaves‚ cash crops‚ and manufactured goods between West Africa‚ Caribbean ‚American colonies and Europe. The use of African slaves was key to growing colonial cash crops‚ which were exported to Europe. European goods‚ in turn‚ were used to purchase African slaves‚ which were then brought on the sea lane west from Africa to the

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    The brutality of slave trade left a detrimental impact through psychological and emotional damage which could never fully be repaired. Slaves were forced to bare through physical pain and suffering as well as mental‚ they were treated as property and the majority of slave owners didn’t even think of slaves to be human. Through their traumatic experiences‚ it was hard for many of them to stay positive because they weren’t surrounded by family which caused emotional suffering. No words can express

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    Britain had become the largest exporter of African slaves to the Americas by the 18th century. By the start of the 19th century more than half of the slaves taken from the West Coast of Africa had been transported across the Atlantic Ocean by British ships. Although Britain was one of the key investors in the slave institution it became the first major European country to leave the trans- Atlantic slave trade and make it illegal in 1807. The discovery of the Americas at the end of the 15th century

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