Slavery And Its Effect On The Uprising Of A New World

The Slave Trade and Its Effects on Early America Slavery played an important role in the development of the American colonies. It was introduced to the colonies in 1619, and spanned until the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. The trading of slaves in America in the seventeenth century was a large industry. Slaves were captured from their homes in Africa, shipped to America under extremely poor conditions, and then sold to the highest bidder, put to work, and forced to live with the new conditions of America. There was no mercy for the slaves and their families as they were captured from their homes and forced onto slave ships.

The triangular system perpetuated the demand for slaves by Europeans in order to increase their country’s wealth. Throughout all of the shipping of goods, including human cargo, individual people were involved in the evolution of the transatlantic trade. The main focus of this paper is to see the overall dynamics of the system, and involvement of individuals and countries, like Jamaica. The evolution and immersion of the transatlantic slave trade not only strengthened capitalism for individuals and their countries, but in turn it weakened Africa and Jamaica by making it dependent economically on outside nations. The slave trade in Africa began long before the introduction of Europeans.

The Triangular Trade was a trading system established by Europeans to transport their goods from Europe. They would then trade their goods for people that were in Africa and then the people, now African American slaves, would be transported to the Americas where they would endure a lifetime of servitude. Millions of Africans were kidnapped from their homeland to help meet the supply and demand for slaves in the Americas and the surrounding areas. However African Americans took action to help stop this institution and to help save their people from enduring horrible hardships overseas. Although the Triangular Trade helped increase the number of African Americans destined to be slaves in the Americas it was not without opposition from Africans who tried in vain to stop their people from becoming a part of this institution.

The English slavers ambushed the slave traders of Old Town, capturing and enslaving Ephraim and Ancona (Spark, 21). These two African traders, Ephraim and Ancona, when returned back to Africa continued with life as usual, as slave traders. Although, exposed to a life contrary to what they were used to slave trading was their culture, the most profitable business during that time and a definite way of revenge. Persons that were enslaved, in African, were able to return to the life as a slave trader once they were released from slavery. With this being the way of life for Africans in their culture, no matter what hardship was experienced that characterized slavery in the Caribbean and the Americas one could have returned to a life as a trader.

They wanted to seek better life in North American, but they were sold to colonial rulers as slaves. We all know that selling black slaves was the most vicious dealing in human history. However, the huge quantity of profits of selling black slaves became the main source of capital accumulation for Americans. In 18th century, black slaves had decisive influences on development of south plantation. Since the products of south plantation were sold in world market, so the plantation economy was the commercial production of capitalism.

In the 17th century the basis of the work force, in mainly the Southern colonies were Europeans labourers, who as indentured servants, offered landowners a solution to their labour shortage. Beginning in the 1680s, the mainland colonies underwent a massive shift, from indentured servants to slave labour, due to requirement of labour in the South. From the early 17th century Africans were shipped to North America to be sold as slaves, against their freewill. Slavery continued to expand even after 1808, when it was declared illegal. African slave trading became the main problem dividing Americans, and could even of been a factor of many, which led to the American Civil War.

Slave trade began in 1441, when the Portuguese began bringing in African slaves to their country and their islands to work. This was perpetuated when the Spanish began to buy slaves from the Portuguese. The Spanish wanted slaves to work their new sugar plantations in North America. Between 1518 and 1850 more then eleven million Africans were transported to the new world. This was the Atlantic Slave Trade, it made many nations very prosperous by receiving free or very cheap labor from these people.

These plantation owners used s... ... middle of paper ... ...ution of slavery in America began with the European colonialists who established their colonies in various parts of America. The Europeans then starting exploring on a number of farming activities that required labor. This gave rise to slave trade through which the Europeans could obtain cheap slaves from Africa, then transport them to America. The slaves resisted being sold into slavery but most of them ended up suffering as a result of it.The history of slavery of America has undergone a number of shifts characterized by a number of abolitionist movements that played a key role in liberating slaves and their future generations. Works Cited Daniels, Roger.

From the 16th to the 19th centuries, European colonies heavily depended on the labor of the Africans for their economic survival. When the European colonists arrived at the United States, they determined that the vast amount of land they just gained was unserviceable without the adequate labor necessary to exploit it. The colonists experimented with Europeans and Native Americans as sources of slavery, but neither was deemed satisfactory. As shown in the Trans-Saharan Trade of the Middle Ages, the use of enslaved Africans for labor has proved to be very reliable. In the Trans-Saharan Trade, African slaves were supplied to work on sugar plantations in the Mediterranean, along with white, Russian slaves as well as the Balkans.

The people in the tribe that were still alive after being conquered , were forced to perform hard labor. The earliest reports of slavery are from China ,Africa , and the Middle East. It is clear that people began to realize that once they used force and fear , other people would serve them with or without their consent. In America during the year 1619 , colonists desired aid to help them in the growing of lucrative crops. They came to the decision to trade rum and molasses with Africa in exchange for slaves.