African American Slavery Research Paper

Many african americans have ancestor that were slaves, and also many african americans have a natural reaction when they are called a slave name. Such as Nigger, Porch Monkey, Coon, and Bootlip. The sad part is this all started because of a european nation not wanting to work hard labor, so they invade a whole country to force a whole race to do work for them. At its extreamly center, was a brutal and harsh organization. From the thought behind it to the way that it was authorized, it forced people to think of themselves as animals and disallowed the essential freedoms that each man is granted. There are three major areas about slavery: The creation of african slavery, the exportation of slavery, and treatment that slavery comes with, acts …show more content…
Africans lived in urban communities and residential areas. Some were rich and some were poor, and there was always a time where they were at peace with each other and others when they were at war with one another. But one thing that west africans needed was goods such as cloth, iron, and coope. They could make these things themselves, but it wouldn't be as strong . So what people like the portuguese and europeans did at first was say they would give them africans guns for gold, but the portuguese pope said no because it was making them powerful. So what the europeans started doing was giving goods in exchange for slaves which africans had a lot of indentured slaves. Africa may have provided the human work that was vital to these advancements in Europe, yet it didn't profit by them itself. It lost a huge number of people. Which started the sad epidemic of the transatlantic …show more content…
Boats would leave Western Europe for Africa stacked with merchandise which was to be traded for slaves. When the boats from europe arrived in Africa they would trade what they had for captured slaves. Weapons were bought the most, but textiles, pearls and other fabricated merchandise, and rum were the high demand.One thing we don't want to forget about is Africans aided in the capture of their own people for wealth because Europeans could not do it all alone. Olaudah Equiano capture is a prime example of Africans kidnapping each other in exchange for goods. About 25 to 30 million men, ladies, and kids, were taken from their homes and sold as slaves. In the transatlantic slave trade. At first, the quantity of Africans taken was little. Then as European powers demanded more Africans to build their empires in America. The largest quantities of free Africans that were deported in into Brazil was nearly 5 million, however, Africans that were already slaves was sent to the greater part of the colonies such as South and Central America and the Caribbean. But because of the development of plantations and sugar needing to be cropped the captures and trades grew. France , England, and portugal were the main trading countries for slaves and goods.

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