Please take a moment to answer and comment on the following questions pertaining to the Slave Trade in Africa based on our reading in The African-American Odyssey.
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- What types of slave trade was conducted in Africa and for what purposes?
- What are the origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade in relation to the enslavement of African Americans in the New World?
- What contributions did interethnic rivalries in West Africa make in relation to enslavement African Americans in the New World?
- What colonies acquired slaves in the greatest numbers? What regions or countries became central to the slave trade and why?
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What are factories in the terms of slave trading?
1: What types of slave trade was conducted in Africa and for what purposes?
ReplyDelete- Slave trade and slavery has existed in all cultures . In Africa there were many types of African slave trade conducted. In Spain they used commodified bodies on a sugar plantation . While, the Europeans obtained slaves from Africa to sell their war captives or would trade them for rum, cloth, or other items especially guns. Trans- Sahara were more likely to become soldiers during slave trade rather than field workers. The Sudanese horsemen conducted Islamic slave trade where they would go into the forest and capture people who could not effectively resist.
2: What are the origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade in relation to the enslavement of African Americans in the New World?
-The 16th century in which the Portuguese merchants dominated the west African slave trade - supplying Spanish and Portuguese New World colonies with imported African labor. Enslaved Africans were imported from Africa to American colonies as the labor force needed to produce cash crops exported to Europe in exchange for merchant goods.
3: What contributions did interethnic rivalries in West Africa make in relation to enslavement African Americans in the New World?
-This led to the warfare that produced slaves during the sixteenth century.
4: What colonies acquired slaves in the greatest numbers? What regions or countries became central to the slave trade and why?
- Colonies that acquired the most slaves were the Caribbean , Americas,and Brazil .The first 130 years the Portuguese dominated the transatlantic slave trade. After 1651 they fell into second position behind the British who became the primary carriers of Africans to the New World, a position they continued to maintain until the end of the trade in the early 19th century.
5: What are factories in the terms of slave trading?
- Factories: A head quarter for a European company that traded slaves or engaged in other commercial enterprises on the west African coast.
1. In West Africa , Sudanese horsemen conducted the Islamic slave trade. The horsemen invaded the forest region to capture people who could not effectively resist often they belonged to stateless societies. The trade dealt mainly in women and children who as slaves were destined for lives as concubines and domestic servants in North and Southwest Asia.
ReplyDelete2. Portuguese seafarers conducted the Atlantic slave trade on a tiny scale to satisfy a limited market for domestic servants in Portugal and Spain.
3. Interethnic rivalries in West Africa led to the warfare that produced these slaves during the sixteenth century.
4. The Caribbean , Americas, and Brazil acquired the greatest number of slaves. Portugal and Spain dominated that Atlantic Slave Trade during the sixteenth century. The profits from the slave trade were so great that by 1550 the Dutch, French, and English were becoming involved. During the early 17th century the Dutch drove the Portuguese from the West African coast and became the principal European slave trading nation.
5. Factories contained the headquarters of the traders, warehouses, for their trade goods and supplies, and dungeons or outdoor holding pens for the captives.
1. The Atlantic slave trade was, as opposed to the Islamic slave trade, targeted mostly men to work. Obviously due to the fact that they where generally better laborer. Though, this changed once there was so much money being made in the brothels.
ReplyDelete2. It was a fact that the Europeans used indigenous population on Cuba, Hispaniola, and Jamaica to work their mines. Though the populations we killed off by brutality and disease.
3. Interethnic rivalries usually led to warfare and produced slaves.
ReplyDelete4. Brazil, the Caribbean and Americas had a very large amount of slaves. The Portuguese had the mass amount of slaves in the beginning and then when others (British, French, Dutch) realized the profits they were making they began involvinng themselves with slaves.
5. Factories were the headquarters for the traders. Could be used as holding places for captives or the places where they stored their trade good and supplies.
1. The Atlantic slave trade was when people needed slaves for labor. The Islamic slave trade was when Sudanese horsemen had went into the forest and capture those from classless societies
ReplyDelete2. When there was a need for labor for cash crops, the American colonies had engaged in the atlantic slave trade. The Portuguese are the ones who stated this slave trade initially.
3. It had automatically led to warfare.
4. America, the Caribbean, as well as Brazil is where many slaves located. Later on, other nations caught on because they saw the benefits of slaves in those three states in the terms of profits.
5. It was a holding /trading place for slaves. They were also used for exchanging goods.
2. Investments were made to start the triangle trade, which where used to start the cycle of profit that hinged on Africans being taken from their home and sold into slavery in the New World
ReplyDelete3. Interethnic rivalries in west Africa allowed an environment to arise where African tribes thought they had to trade their captives for guns. As soon as one (wherever the guns came from) convinced a tribe to start using these guns, all the other tribes would be more likely to trade their captives to be slaves in order to meet this new threat. The guns could even have been given to a tribe to scare other tribes into trying to bring the europeans their tribes captives in exchange for guns.