What factors led to the Atlantic slave trade?
Ivory, gold and other trade resources
attracted Europeans to West Africa. As demand for cheap labour to work on plantations in the Americas grew, people enslaved in West Africa became the most valuable ‘commodity’ for European traders. Slavery existed in Africa before Europeans arrived.
How did slave trade start in Africa?
The transatlantic slave trade began during the 15th century when Portugal, and subsequently other European kingdoms, were finally able to expand overseas and reach Africa
. The Portuguese first began to kidnap people from the west coast of Africa and to take those they enslaved back to Europe.
What were three reasons for the growth of slavery?
High European demand for cash crops (Tobacco, sugar, and rice), Difficulty in enslaving Natives, and lack of indentured servants
were the reasons for growth of slavery.
What were the main factors that lead to European led African slave trade?
- The importance of the West Indian colonies.
- The shortage of labour.
- The failure to find alternative sources of labour.
- The legal position.
- Racial attitudes.
- Religious factors.
- Military factors.
What factors led up to and fueled the triangular trade?
The factors that led up to and fueled the Triangular trade was
the discovery of land and slavery
.
What are two reasons why West Africa strongly felt the effects of the slave trade?
The West African countries lost most of their able-bodied men and women to the slave trade
. The price of manufactured goods fell sharply in West Africa. The West African countries were most easily reached by European ships.
Cause: Many African rulers and merchants played a willing role in the Atlantic Slave Trade. Effect:
Many Africans were captured and delivered to Europeans in exchange for gold, guns, and other goods
. The voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies and later to North and South America.
Slavery Throughout the Ancient World
Sumer or Sumeria is still thought to be the birthplace of slavery
, which grew out of Sumer into Greece and other parts of ancient Mesopotamia. The Ancient East, specifically China and India, didn’t adopt the practice of slavery until much later, as late as the Qin Dynasty in 221 BC.
1520
: First known transatlantic slave voyage. 1619: Angela is traded for food in Virginia. 1641: Eastern Caribbean sugar exports begin. 1695: Gold discovered in Brazil.
Furthermore, the Atlantic trade led to the formation of semi-feudal classes in Africa that collaborated with Europeans to sanction the oppression of their own people. These classes came from the African aristocracy and middlemen who
facilitated the capture and sale of Africans
and made substantial gains from the trade.
Mercantilism led to the emergence of what’s been called the “triangular trade”
: a system of exchange in which Europe supplied Africa and the Americas with finished goods, the Americas supplied Europe and Africa with raw materials, and Africa supplied the Americas with enslaved laborers.
The triangle, involving three continents, was complete.
European capital, African labour and American land and resources
combined to supply a European market.
The effect of slavery in Africa
Other states were completely destroyed and their populations decimated as they were absorbed by rivals
. Millions of Africans were forcibly removed from their homes, and towns and villages were depopulated. Many Africans were killed in slaving wars or remained enslaved in Africa.
European period
Slave trade also occurred in the eastern Indian Ocean before the Dutch settled there around 1600 but the volume of this trade is unknown. European slave trade in the Indian Ocean began when
Portugal established Estado da Índia in the early 16th century
. From then until the 1830s, c.
African slaves were brought to the americas
when native american workers began dying from disease and warfare
. They were brought to work the large sugar plantations.
What gave rise to the slave trade?
The lack of a skilled labor force in the Americas and the decline of the West African population
caused residents to seek a living elsewhere. The shipment of gold from the Americas to Europe caused plantation owners to seek inexpensive laborers.
Which statement identifies an impact of the Atlantic slave trade?
It destroyed much of Africa’s heritage and disrupted its development.
The trans-Atlantic slave trade, which began
as early as the 15th century
, introduced a system of slavery that was commercialized, racialized and inherited. Enslaved people were seen not as people at all but as commodities to be bought, sold and exploited.
In 1713 an agreement between
Spain and Britain
granted the British a monopoly on the trade of enslaved people with the Spanish colonies. Under the Asiento de negros, Britain was entitled to supply those colonies with 4,800 enslaved Africans per year for 30 years.
