Essay On African American Slave Trade

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The slave trade of Africans began to flourish during the period of the Atlantic World, because of this slavery had become an acceptable act in the eyes of many. Slavery has always been around, but during the 1500s it blew up. European colonists that migrated to the Americas were in need of cheap labour. At first they used the Natives of the area for work, as they had knowledge of the land, but soon realized they were not an efficient source of labour. Natives caught diseases brought by the Europeans and the majority of them died. Plus the fact only the women had knowledge of farming, and even then it was little. Because the natives had so many downfalls to working for the europeans they searched for another source and came to a realization that Africans were perfectly accostomed for the ¨job¨. African slaves were far more productive than the Natives. They had lived in a hot tropical climate before coming to the Americas and were already accostomed to the weather along with the diseases the Europens carried from animals. Not only that but they had knowledge of farming and could work for long periods of time. Because the African slaves were obviously far more productive and better accostomed to this type of work, the Europeans began to use Africans as slaves, thus began the transporting of Africans to the …show more content…

About 6 million Africans were transported over seas to the Americas, which is just counting those from the18th century. Slave trade really expanded due to the fact Europeans needed a cheap work force, and not only have slaves been traded for over centuries but also goods, which were traded with African kings and merchants for captured slaves. Because of the expansion of slave trade slavery was increasing like no other, millions and millions being captured (5 times as many africans than Europeans) , shipped and brought into horrible lives in which they had no

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