Ccot Slavery Essay

There was a vast intermediate within the Middle Passage trade between the years of 1400's to late 1800's. This slave trades started out as a casual everyday affair and later ended as one of mankind's worst moments in history.

In the early 1400's slavery was just inherited by European countries. The arrival of Europeans in Africa led to a new way of slavery expansion already in Africa. There were at first 1 thousand slaves per year being moved from Africa and that number grew to 100,000 plus slaves a year. Usually those slaves in Africa were P.O.W. and captives. Eventually Europeans transformed that and was then just random Africans they could capture and trade off. Countries that participated in this trade was the Dutch, French, British, and Spaniards.

Africa was already having many wars within each tribe so it made it easy for Europeans to come in and swoop whoever they could. Also in the New World such as Brazil's sugar cane business or Virginia's cotton/tobacco farms, there was a great need for hard labor. Native Americans even though already being in the America's were pushed farther away from those colonies and were not used as a labor force. So as time passed on the need for more slaves grew. Europeans realized for there to be more wars in Africa, tribal people needed a reason to fight. So Europeans would trade with rulers for things such as guns or metal ware to seduce Africans to capture other Africans. There was no political law in any country that would help end this monstrosity.

After a while around the 1800's there was a new light on the treatment of slaves. The age of enlightenment and many revolutions led to the Decline of slavery. Great Britain led abolition movements to free many countless of slaves. It was hard to do since the number of slaves that left Africa exceeded 5 million alone in Brazil. Also places especially like northern USA used less farming and more factories or industrial business. This led to less hard labor being needed. The idea of actually paying employees even benefited in the economy.

The results of slavery showed recklessness to humankind as over 12 million slaves were put through torturous conditions and sent to the America's. Many African tribes were affected because of the constant civil war going on between them. But there was a change of heart around the end of the 1800's as abolition movements were used to stop the slave trade.