...use muslim slaves and kings in europe used slaves. This was not a new concept, but it became a malevolent one. The slave trade started in the atlantic world because plantation owners needed a lot of cheap labor for the excessive amount of work. When Europeans invaded the Americas, their plan was to use natives as slaves. Unfortunately thousands of natives died due to diseases, and the one that didn’t die would leave because they knew the land and didn’t want to be slaves. Since the land was so large a lot of work was needed for the fields that few people could offer. So people would...
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...slavery a 'triangular trade' would be created. Using supportive facts and a written testimonial from Harriet Jacobs published in the year 1861. Ultimately leading and ending to the discussion of the many attitudes and changes that were created in the colonial legal system that made a slavery system flourish. Around the mid fifteenth century an Atlantic slave trade system was introduced when the interests of the Portuguese moved away from common resources most especially when gold became more difficult to gather. The Portuguese than looked to something that would be more profitable. A process would develop in the gathering of slaves whether through barter, between a European slave trader, kidnapping or rival tribe leaders that had raved other African tribes. The focus would become the usage of slaves and the selling of the African race for a very hefty profit. The development of slavery in the colonies led to mass production in the labor field. This event in history is where the idea of African slavery...
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...Methods of producing sugar – The English and French began inventing new and better ways of processing sugar cane. b) The Labour Force – Planting and processing sugar cane required extensive labour force. The planters wanted work to be done using the cheapest labour force, which in the end, would mean greater profits for them when the sugar was sold. Thus, an increasing number of African slaves were used. c) Increase in the price of Land: Great sugar plantations developed by buying the small plots of land that were used to cultivate tobacco. As sugar became more profitable, the demand for land increased, which caused the price of land to increase. d) Change in governance – As the English French and Dutch colonies became more important, there was a need for systems of government and control. At 1st, the government in Europe did not want to spend money on their colonies, leaving all responsibilities on the proprietors (owners of the plantation). However, when they realized how profitable their colonies were becoming, they stepped in to claim ownership. e) Trade: When Europeans realized the value...
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...Hatred and struggle. As well on in Life, people adapt to their surroundings, and sure enough some people are used to the population of African Americans and feel as if they are just the same. Although slavery was not the greatest time in world history, it did help to shape the present today. Slavery predominantly took place in the Southern America, the southern states to be exact. The dependence on slaves came mostly from the white Americans. They looked at slaves as their servants. "Slave" meaning, by definition, "a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them," we're the servants to those who bought them. They were perceived as dirt, looked down upon by white people. As if they were blank and had no exemplary title to the world. What regions? As slavery patiently escalated to higher and higher levels, slave owners gradually excepted the fact that they needed a new way of trade. They decided to create the triangular trade. The triangular trade consisted of a trade route between Africa(where they retrieve the slaves), Europe (where they bought spices and other trade goods), and finally the English colonies, where they sold the goods they bought in Europe and sold the slaves. Therefore all of the trade routes were overseas. About 20 percent of the slaves died or killed themselves. Contributing to the fact of disease and cancelations Ship conditions: The ships that the slaves rode...
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...activities and trade were dependant of the environment in which the Colonists lived refer to Triangular Trade. The geography and climate impacted the trade and economic activities of Southern Colonies. The Southern Colonies concentrated on agriculture and developed the plantations exporting tobacco, cotton, corn, vegetables, grain, fruit and livestock. The Southern Colonies had the largest slave population who worked on the Slave Plantations. Plantations grew cotton, tobacco, indigo (a purple dye), and other crops. Some of the Southern plantations were massive and consisted of the main house, slave quarters, a dairy, blacksmith's shop, laundry, smokehouse and barns which made the plantations to large degree, self-sufficient. Crops were traded for items that could not be produced on the plantations including farm tools, shoes, lace, and...
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...Slavery during the 1700-1900’s was a major piece of history led by greed and inconsideration of human life involving several different colonizers. Slavery in America began in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 when a Dutch ship brought about twenty African men and women to help tend to crops and tobacco growth. This led other countries to turn to slavery for cheap labor. Slavery slowly developed into what we know to be a long history of economic growth, suffering, abuse, and mistreatment. The history of slavery not only includes slavery as a whole but also the slave ships, slave revolts, and much more. Finally, on December 6th, 1865 the 13th amendment was ratified by American congress to abolish slavery in the United States. The article written by...
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...was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa were shipped to the New World, as part of the Atlantic slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods, which were traded for purchased or kidnapped Africans, who were transported across the Atlantic as slaves; the slaves were then sold or traded for raw materials, which would be transported back to Europe to complete the voyage. The journey of slave trading ships was from the west coast of Africa, where the slaves were obtained, across the Atlantic, where they were sold or, in some cases, traded for goods such as molasses, which was used in the making of rum. However, this voyage has come to be remembered for much more than simply the transport and sale of slaves. The Middle Passage was the longest, hardest, most dangerous, and also most horrific part of the journey of the slave ships. With extremely tightly packed loads of human cargo that stank and carried both infectious disease and death, the ships would travel east to west across the Atlantic on a miserable voyage lasting at least five weeks, and sometimes as long as three months. Although incredibly profitable for both its participants and their investing backers, the terrible Middle Passage has come to represent the ultimate in human misery and suffering. The abominable and inhuman conditions which the Africans were faced with on their voyage clearly display the great evil of the slave trade. During the Middle...
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...The boys were also used get some reading or writing from their father. There was a gender inequality at the time. People used to grow a variety of crops at their fields like wheat, potato, corn, rice, barley and oats. There are many important facts about daily life on the farm in colonial time like during the time the farmer family lived in one or two room house with their children. Their house used to be dirty. The horse were the best means of transportation. They were expensive and only a high and medium classes people used to afford it. However, it cost half of the year wages to buy for the high and medium people. The only one day that the colonial family didn't work was Sunday. Because on Sunday, they used to go for praying to god in the church. They weren't much educated during the colonial time and because of that reason they were not aware of family planning. So they used to have seven and eight children in their family. They wore same old clothes all days and wearing the same clothes most of...
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...The Columbian Exchange When Christopher Columbus sailed the Atlantic from Spain and discovered the Americas in 1492, he started The Columbian Exchange or the trading and spreading of ideas, foods, and diseases throughout the new and old worlds. The advanced technology from Spain helped the voyages that soon assisted in the development and improvement of the European and American societies. Even though the Columbian Exchange spread a variety of diseases, it had positive effects on Europe and the Americas, because it increased European population, increased migration, and spread different foods. Before 1580, only 139,000 Spaniards and 68,000 Africans had migrated to the new land; by 1640 roughly 188,000 Spaniards and 607,000 Africans resided...
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...the shackles of labor, slave trade in Sub-Saharan Africa during the Post-Classical Era, 600-1450 C.E., and the Early Colonial Era, 1450-1750 C.E., correlate through the time periods with the viley vain intent to collect and sell vulgar labor force. But the slave trade differs with the slave dealer’s motivation morphing throughout time, for the initial motive for slave trade commenced with the craving for personal profit and, overtime, altered...
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...problem in social history. Racial Discrimination is manifested through different unlawful crimes such as death, torture, teasing and killing. It has been a controversial issue in world societies for many years and has caused many disagreements as well as violent conflicts toward against many different social and ethnic groups throughout history. One of the most well-known periods of time when a specific group of people were discriminated was the time of slavery. Africans were stolen from their homelands by Europeans around the early 1500s and were sent in America in a process that is known as the Triangular Trade. The triangular trade is journey between Africa, Europe and America. It was a pattern of colonial commerce in which slaves were bought on the African Gold Coast with New England rum and then traded in the West Indies for sugar or molasses. (Stump, LaVault, and Murray). Slaves were not considered as “human” because of physical feature like skin color. As Harriet Jacobs noted, “Slavery is terrible for men;...
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...Exam 1: Introduction to Africana Studies Short Answer Questions: Be sure to respond to the ENTIRE question, since each question has two parts. (4 points each/100 points total) 1) Why would you say that some see Africa as a country? How would you describe the size of Africa in relation to the size of the United States? 2) The view of Africa as a jungle is erroneous, since a jungle or forested area is not one of the continent’s major environmental features. Name two that are. 3) Africa can be discussed from either an Afrocentric perspective or a Eurocentric perspective. Give two examples of the way Africa is portrayed that support a Eurocentric perspective. 4) Turning to an Afrocentric perspective, name the African scholar honored for exerting the greatest influence on Black thought in the 20th century at the Black World Festival of Arts and Culture in Senegal, West Africa. Name the African American scholar honored for the same reason. 5) Name the Origin of Humankind theory that Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop said was so rigorously defended until science cast it aside. What reason did he cite for its rigorous defense? 6) From “Journey of Man,” name the reason humankind took so long to populate Europe. How many years did it take? 7) What delayed the American geneticist’s travel into Central Asia? Why was getting to that destination so important to him? 8) Name the word that the Navajo man took issue with the geneticist using...
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...gentle slopes, open plains, and rivers offered rich farmland and a long growing season was perfect for mass-producing crops. Many crops were mass-produced to support the South’s economy such as tobacco, rice, indigo, and cotton. Tobacco was grown in Virginia and North Carolina. Indigo and rice were grown in South Carolina and Georgia. These crops were traded for money because they believed you should export more than you import (mercantilism). To tend these crops slaves were traded to the Southern colonies from Africa. There were so many working the fields that plantation owners did not know the conditions they lived in. Because of the slaves and plantation owners social classes started to emerge. The slaves were at the bottom of the social class and rich plantation owners were at the top. These plantation owners were called the gentry. These wealthy people in the gentry believed they were better than other lower classes such as slaves. As a result, this impacted greatly upon the treatment and respect of slaves on plantations. The unique geography of the South influenced the community set-up. The community set-up consisted of self-contained economic units resembling small towns. In the center of the plantation...
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...As previously stated, the initial reason for establishing the southern colonies was mainly for profit or expansion for trade. Therefore, a large part of their economy was built on the cash-crop, tobacco. Slaves were the social norm of the southern colonies of the mid-1700s largely because of economics. Extra help was needed to run the wealthy, white man's’ plantation. Like the southern colonies, the economy of the middle colonies was built off of trade. However, crops did not thrive in the middle colonies, like they did in the southern, making their economy consist mainly of farming, fishing, and lumbering. Unlike the southern colonies, slaves were not as commonly used. Indentured servants were paid to help with the extra farm labor. The reason being that the middle colonies were home to a diverse population of people. The inhabitants consisted of a large range of Europeans, Native Americans, and African Americans made free by the Quaker Meeting in 1688. This meeting, in Pennsylvania, issued the first American antislavery proclamation. However it was not until the 1750s that this was adapted all throughout the middle colonies. Unlike the southern colonies, New England colonies had a struggling economy. Because this region was not established for imperialism and the economy was initially subsidiary, they struggled with growing crops for trade do to poor soil. However, by the late-1700s, the New England...
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...country over a long period of time; when it finally reached the Arabs, the local people were in love with sugar. In addition, the author himself writes that the sculpture and mosques made by the sugar of marzipan were representing the wealth of the state. Sugar was brought to the West after the Crusades. However, the climate in Europe is not suitable for sugarcane to grow. Thus, the sugar was so rare that only the nobility could consume it. In the 1400s, because of the spread of the Ottoman Empire, the trade of sugar became more and more difficult. Thus, with the love of sugar, the Europeans decided to explore new continents and new places to develop sugar. Slaves to Sugar Exploring the history of “Sugar Love,” the author mentioned “slaves” and “sugar” at the same time. After the Europeans brought sugarcane to New world, they also brought plenty of African slaves to work on the sugar plantation. According to Trinidadian politician and historian Eric Williams, “They[slaves] were seen as inferior to justify the enslavement required for the prosperity of the early sugar...
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