Slave trade?

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Question Details: I'm very intrested in this topic, and i know i am being a bit lazy, but i want to know about Slave trade in the american life back in the 17th century?

I could easily google or wiki this topic,

but i want it more understanding and daily words.

describe the slave trade.

thnks :)

Answer 1

386 years of Triangular Atlantic Trade of Materials, Slave, Goods & The Institution of Slave labor in the New World (Americas) .

When any form began and when all forms ended:

1502- 1888

Portugal started in and it ended with Portuguese descendants in Brazil.

European Nations involved

Portugal 35.4%

Britain 23.8%

Spain 22.1%

France 14.1%

Holland  4.4%

Denmark 0.2%

African Nations supply of captives

Nigeria 22%

Democratic Republic of Congo 20%

Angola:13%

Ghana: 10.3%

Republic of Congo 6.3%

Cameroon: 5%

Senegal: 4%

Benin: 4%

Mozambique 3%

Guinea 2.4%

Togo 2.1%

Equatorial Guinea: 2%

Madagascar: 1.6%

Sierra Leone: 1%

Cote d' Ivoire: 1%

The Gambia: 0.8%

Liberia 0.7%

Gabon: 0.6%

Guinea-Bissau 0.2%

New World Destinations

South & Central America 50.4% (Brazil 35.4% alone)

Caribbean 45.2%

North America (USA) 4.4%

Europe- Created raw materials

Africa- Produced the slaves

New world- Exported slave made goods

Europe- Bought slave made goods by selling raw materials

Africa- Bought raw materials materials by selling Slaves

Americas- Bought Slaves by selling slave made goods

Raw Materials- Guns Alcohol etc

Slaves- Prisoners of war, Criminals, Abducted & Enemies

Slave made goods- Cotton Tropical food, fruit Sugar

European based Merchant- Bought the raw materials and sold them to sailors

European African based Merchant- Bought African captives in African ports held them in castles and sold them to sailors

Black African Merchants- Bought and transported captives to the coastal ports to sell to European based African merchants

American based Merchant- Bough the newly transported Africans and sold them to slave market owners

Sailors - Transported raw materials from Europe to Africa

Transported African captives from Africa to Americas

Transported Slave Made goods from New world to Europe

African Leaders- Used their armies to start war in order to produce captives and sold them to African based Merchants

African kidnapper- Kidnapped children and babies and sold them to Black African Merchants

African Justice system convicted criminals of serious crimes ie murder or kidnapping and sold them to African based Merchants at the Coastal Ports

European industry- Built ships and made raw materials

African ports- Held captives in castle awaiting transportation to the new world

New world Slave Market owners- Bought imported Africans from American based merchants and sold the Africans as slaves to the population of White Americans

Middle Passage

6 - 8 weeks

Men were chained and kept under deck throughout journey in the same position. Eat slept and excrete in same position.

Women and Children were kept on deck made to entertain humiliated or raped.

Meals were one bowl of rice and one glass of water a day per head.

Most were naked if not all.

Scurvy and infection killed over 20% of the total people on board on average.

A ship could hold up to

40,000,000 Made Captives

32,000,000 Survive voyage to be sold to Europeans

18,000,000 Survive transportation (Middle Passage) to New World imported

22,000,000 Total Death Toll

54,000,000 Estimate of total slaves born in African & New world who were slaves in the New world institutions between 1502 - 1888

76,000,000 liefs were directly effected by the Atlantic Slave Trade or institution of Slavery in the New world. (Either captured of slaves)

2008 - More than 237,599,941 descendants of at least one slave in the New world

26% of the total New world population (Americas)

Including 68,720,776 white Americans (40%) who have Africam ancesry and just dont knwo it.

Seasoning Camps- Torture camps where they beleive you could break Africans like how you break a horse in order to make it under full command but you cant do to humans millions died here severe torture

Breeding Camps- Where high fertility women were constantly undergoing s*x with many other men in oder to produce American born slaves and sell them.

Slave Markets- Sold newly transported Africans to the population. Slaves were branded and dressed in European clothing nothing African survived except themselves they were sold as property till death.

KKK- Formed as being the slave police who would ride horses and create fear and control to discourage slaves from rebelling or fleeing. When slavery ended this sport carried on and in turn they turnt into the KKK.

Theres plenty more I dont know but this was a brief description of it

This was the most darkest thing in Human history yet today its a shaming topic to be brought up and thoroughly studied which everyone should in the western world as this is the core thing which built it and knowledge of it can answer questions you never know was connected. Knowledge eliminates ignorance, moaninig and guilt.

Answer 2

What alot of people fail to realize is the fact that the Africans brought to North America were sold into slavery by other Africans. The new slaves got loaded onto ships and brought to the Americas.

Answer 3

As Europeans were exploring the New World, Africans often accompanied them, serving as explorers and servants.

The New World was full of natural resources that European countries were interested in exploiting. For this, labor was needed.

Despite having Africans working in other capacities, Europeans did not immediately enslave them. Instead, since Native Americans were readily available, they were used as slaves first. However, because Europeans brought diseases, there was a high mortality rate and the work was too harsh.

Europeans next looked to the employment of poor whites to serve as indentured servants. However, many problems arose. Often indentured servants ran away, refused to serve out their term, and there were not enough of them to work in the fields.

Thus, the enslavement of Africans quickly became the solution. It appeared to solve the need for cheap labor since slaves in Africa could easily be obtained.

In 1517, the trans-Atlantic slave trade officially began. As slave trading developed into big business, European countries vied for dominance. By the 17th and 18th centuries, the main traders were Dutch, French, and English companies. While independent traders existed, the Dutch West India Company and the English Royal African Company monopolized trading relations on the African coast. However, in the end, England came to dominate trading, and began providing slaves to not only its own colonies, but to other countries colonies.

Answer 4

With the discovery of cash crops like indigo,cotton and tobacco that could easily grow on soil in the newly discovered New World,it was the Dutch who came up with a system  to use slaves to gather and carry the product to waiting ships bound for Europe.

The Dutch also introduced this idea  of capturing and selling  slaves to Islamic leaders in Africa to rid themselves  of the "infidels" and still make a profit.

Answer 5

If you had enough money to buy a slave and feed it then good for you, you became a slave owner no big deal.

Answer 6

The most profitable  slave trade routes were known as the Triangle Slave Trade. The one dealing with the American colonies  went from the west coast of Africa, where slaves were obtained, to the West Indies, where the slaves were auctioned off, to the northern British colonies in New England where molasses was turned into rum which was used to purchase more slaves. This was the notorious "middle passage."  The major Triangle Trade Routes were most profitable in the 18th Century as slavery did not become a major commercial success until that century. Check out Wiki or the site below.