African Slave Trade In The Nineteenth Century

African slave trade started in the seventh century. It spread all the way to the americas. When England wanted slaves in the americas. England transported about 1.7 million slaves to americas. It also increased of slavery and slave trade. They develop what is now the triangular trade. It was an network that transported african to different parts of the world. Over one trade route, Europeans transported manufactured goods to the west coast of Africa. The African would than be transported across the Atlantic Ocean and sold in the West Indies.

When they got to the Americas they did not know where they were. They were forced to work in strong land. In they did escape they would auctioned off to an highest bidder. Most of them work in the fields or the mines. Some worked as an domestic servants. Many lived on little food and in an small, dreary huts. They worked long days and suffered beating. They were less likely to escape because they did not know the land.

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The majority of the deaths was on the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. The condition on the slave ships was terrible. Most of the slaves was shipped to Brazil. The numbers of slaves imported across the Atlantic Ocean steadily increased. 5,000 slaves a year in the sixteenth century. By the time of the eighteenth century there were over 100,000 slaves a year. The international slave trade had lasting effects upon the African cultural landscape.

The most recent estimates put the total number of enslavement Africans forced onto the New World between the 1440s and 1860s at no less than 12 million. It does not coant on these who died in the “middle passage” to Americas and the Caribbean. By the 18th century, slave statues was increasingly associated exclusively with the africans. They wanted africans to work in the new world because african was perfect work there. Since they don’t get the tropical