Unforgettable Black World History Analysis

What was never presented was the point of view from the African Americans because it was seemingly dismissed. It was eye-opening to read about the experience from an African’s perspective because it brought a whole new light to my understanding of what it meant to be a slave and the struggles black Americans face here in the US, even

I assert that one way enslaved African

The Atlantic slave trade was the biggest illegal immigration in world history,and is sometimes called the Holocaust of Enslavement because of how many innocent people were unjustly killed. The first step of this trade was the Europeans who would travel to the west coast of Africa. Once they arrived it was common that they would bribe tribes with goods and weapons, commonly guns, that were used into turning against their own and capturing their neighbors. Upon being taken against their will the enslaved were then shipped across the Atlantic ocean. During this 2-4 month period they were beaten, shoved into small barracks, and many died due to lack of sanitation.

To slave a person is the most inhumane act one can commit, and unfortunately was very popular during the 18th century. However, have you ever wondered the different impacts slavery caused between men and women? Both Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs showcase, through their writings, the horrors of slavery, and contrast the many similarities and import differences between the experience of slavery between genders. One of the similarities of slavery for both genders was their allowances. Both men and women were only allowed a certain amount of food and clothing to survive throughout a year.

During the slave trade it was inhumane and violence, million of African people and children were taken away from their home to work in the new world. The slave trade took away many productive workers from Africa which they are skilled in farming and other establishment. The captain of the ship would try to enlarge their profit by trying to fit as many slaves as possible in the new world. Sometime slaves are captured and placed into dungeon with other captives. People would protests to be released but the two kings was corrupted and demanding

In fact, there are records that say African voyages were made long ago before slavery even started in America. We are led to believe that Christopher Columbus came to voyage America before Africans did but there was a voyage long before Christopher Columbus. Africans were brought to the west by Americans to cultivate things like sugar and cotton; they got this idea from Muslims who had black slaves in places like Egypt and Southern Iraq who were cultivating the same thing. The type of slavery that existed in the west was much harsher. Millions of slaves were brought to the west and about 60% of them did not survive.

This concludes that people should change what they think about slavery since many have been in pain during

They often kill them, not in enforcing strict discipline, but on the impulse of passion, as they would an enemy, only it is done with impunity” (26). Unfortunately, if the slave acted up or was doing something they were not supposed to do, then it usually resulted in death for that slave. The slaves knew that if they did act up, then they would be put to death instead of being punished or disciplined.

The times of slavery had only brought sadness and despair for all African-Americans in the United States during the times of the Civil War. People were treated as property, denied a proper education, and overall treated as expendable and inconsequential pieces of trash. The one thing that was done so that we could understand the pain that these slaves had gone through was the slaves explaining their experiences through writing to be studied throughout history. However, there are very distinct differences between the writings in how they are made and written.

Over the years from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, slaves were not only transported to just the United States, but to all around the world. They were sold and traded to many different countries which meant that their cultures went with them. As they would grow and multiply in an area, they would repopulate in others. Forced labor migrations contributed to globalization because when slaves of different ethnicities were shipped to other parts of the world, they took their culture and history with them. When the term “Slave trade” is used, it has a negative meaning and usually a negative context behind it, but by seeing what the slave trade actually did for not only America, but for the world, the meaning behind it can be viewed from another angle.

This excerpt is extremely important because it makes us better understand the status of African people, subdued by the European nations, and how the concept of slavery was perceived and addressed by

There was created a circle Europe provided Africa by manufactured goods; from Africa to America were trafficking slaves; and Europe gave raw materials from America. The slave trip across the Atlantic Ocean was called “Middle Passage“. Typically to cross Atlantic took 60-90 days but sometimes it take four months. People were suffered from hunger and diseases. A lot of people died in the way to the ship.

Slavery in Africa and in Latin America was distinct, despite being connected through the Atlantic slave trade. While traditional African slavery was practiced largely by communities to help produce food or for prestige, slave labor in Latin America was practiced on a much larger scale, for it was central to the colonies’

Over the course of 400 years, about 12 million Aficans were shipped across the Alantic and were affected by slavery. Slavery started because Africans were different from the Nordic Whites and were considered to be inferior. They “needed” to be ‘controlled’ and were forced into slavery to keep Africans and Nordic Whites from repopulating together and creating inferior

There are no acceptable number of slaves that were brought out of Africa though considering that “within twenty years period, 320,000 Igbos were sold in Bonny, while another 50,000 were sold at Calabar” (Nwabueze, 1984, p.75), a very huge number people must have been sold to the merchant ships the period which transatlantic slave trade lasted. "Scholars in many primary studies have estimated about ten million West Africans crossed the Atlantic that between 1450 and 18502" (Ume, 1980, p.5), that’s almost the population of Sweden today. Does it mean that slave trade had no positive impact on the part of the “natives” apart from the widely known fact that some local chiefs and slave traders benefited from the sale of human beings? Arowolo (2010) while quoting (Standage, 2005) argued that "It is significant to note the contribution that Diaspora blacks were later to make to the process of Westernization in Africa, notably through their role in Christian evangelization and