Institution of Slavery

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“Between 1450 and 1850, it is estimated that 12 million Africans were shipped across the Atlantic” (Stearns et al. 554). Near 1600 CE the first slaves were traded in Africa. They were not considered as “slaves” at this point and their conditions were not as much deteriorated as it became in America. When the Europeans began trading humans, the Africans become known as slaves. In 1641 slavery became legally approved in America. It took hundreds of years before Americans got rid of the slavery legally. There are many effects of slavery that still linger in America today. Slavery became such a strong institution in the Americas that people had to struggle very hard to stop this institution. When Spanish people first colonized America, they brought diseases with them which caused a mass decrease of population of the indigenous people. The fertile land of the Atlantic region, suitable for many agricultural goods, seemed to a great opportunity of economic development to the colonists. So, they started to run different economic tasks to get the highest benefits from the colony. Slavery is one of the processes that influenced the economy of the Europe in many aspects. Agriculture and cheap labor were two causes for the institutionalization of slavery in America, which inevitably led to the industrial revolution.
The Native Americans had less experience in agricultural knowledge and mass population destructions caused a labor shortage in this region. Although, the weather and the fertile land of America were very much suitable for agricultural products, they did not have much knowledge of using the fertility of lands properly. Besides, they were disconnected from the outer world before 1492 which caused the Andeans lacking behind from th...

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... unbearable torture the slave trade is remembered as a curse for the African population and the entire sufferer in today’s world.

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Eltis, David and Stanley L. Engerman. "The Importance of Slavery and the Slave Trade to Industrializing Britain”. The Journal of Economic History. 60.1, Mar. 2000:123-144. JSTOR. Web. 15 Apr. 2014.
Gupta, Tania Das. "Capitalism and Slavery”. Race and Racialization. Canadian Scholars' Press, 2007. Web. 15 Apr. 2014.
Mitchell, Donald. "Predatory Warfare, Social Status, and the North Pacific Slave Trade." JSTOR. University of Pittsburgh- Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, 23.1, (Jan. 1984):39. Web. 15 Apr. 2014.
Stearns, Peter N., Michael Adas, Stuart B. Schwartz, and Marc Jason Gilbert. World Civilizations: The Global Experience. 6th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Longman, 2011. Print.

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