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Manning estimates that 4 million died inside Africa after capture, and many more died young. Manning's estimate covers the 12 million who were originally destined for the Atlantic, as well as the 6 million destined for Asian slave markets and the 8 million destined for African markets. According to Kimani Nehusi, the presence of European slavers affected the way in which the legal code in African societies responded to offenders.
Crimes traditionally punishable by some other form of punishment became punishable by enslavement and sale to slave traders. The slave trade was largely a by-product of tribal and state warfare as a way of removing potential dissidents after victory or financing future wars.
He requests the King of Portugal to stop sending merchandise but should only send missionaries. In one of his letters he writes:. Each day the traders are kidnapping our people—children of this country, sons of our nobles and vassals, even people of our own family. This corruption and depravity are so widespread that our land is entirely depopulated. We need in this kingdom only priests and schoolteachers, and no merchandise, unless it is wine and flour for Mass.
It is our wish that this Kingdom not be a place for the trade or transport of slaves Many of our subjects eagerly lust after Portuguese merchandise that your subjects have brought into our domains. To satisfy this inordinate appetite, they seize many of our black free subjects After having taken these prisoners [to the coast] secretly or at night As soon as the captives are in the hands of white men they are branded with a red-hot iron.
Before the arrival of the Portuguese , slavery had already existed in Kongo.
South Carolina was in many ways similar to the Caribbean. African-American culture Culture of Africa. The Atlantic Slave Trade: Based on "records for 27, voyages that set out to obtain slaves for the Americas". Accessed 22 July Karl Marx in his influential economic history of capitalism Das Kapital wrote that "
Afonso believed that the slave trade should be subject to Kongo law. The kings of Dahomey sold war captives into transatlantic slavery; they would otherwise have been killed in a ceremony known as the Annual Customs. As one of West Africa's principal slave states, Dahomey became extremely unpopular with neighbouring peoples. A family's status was indicated by the number of slaves it owned, leading to wars for the sole purpose of taking more captives. This trade led the Khasso into increasing contact with the European settlements of Africa's west coast, particularly the French.
The Bight of Benin's shore soon came to be known as the "Slave Coast". The slave trade is the ruling principle of my people. It is the source and the glory of their wealth In , the UK Parliament passed the Bill that abolished the trading of slaves. The King of Bonny now in Nigeria was horrified at the conclusion of the practice:.
We think this trade must go on. That is the verdict of our oracle and the priests. They say that your country, however great, can never stop a trade ordained by God himself. After being marched to the coast for sale, enslaved people were held in large forts called factories. The amount of time in factories varied, but Milton Meltzer states in Slavery: A World History that around 4. After being captured and held in the factories, slaves entered the infamous Middle Passage. Meltzer's research puts this phase of the slave trade's overall mortality at Measures were taken to stem the onboard mortality rate, such as enforced "dancing" as exercise above deck and the practice of force-feeding enslaved persons who tried to starve themselves.
Other fatalities were suicides, slaves who escaped by jumping overboard. Before the African slave trade was completely banned by participating nations in , Cohn, an economics professor whose research has focused on economic history and international migration , [84] has researched the mortality rates among Africans during the voyages of the Atlantic slave trade.
He found that mortality rates decreased over the history of the slave trade, primarily because the length of time necessary for the voyage was declining. In the nineteenth century, 2 months appears to have been the maximum length of the voyage, and many voyages were far shorter. Fewer slaves died in the Middle Passage over time mainly because the passage was shorter. Despite the vast profits of slavery, the ordinary sailors on slave ships were badly paid and subject to harsh discipline. A high crew mortality rate on the return voyage was in the captain's interests as it reduced the number of sailors who had to be paid on reaching the home port.
The slave trade was hated by many sailors and those who joined the crews of slave ships often did so through coercion or because they could find no other employment. Dysentery was the leading cause of death. Notable diseases not originally known as present in Americas before include those such as smallpox, malaria, bubonic plague, typhus, influenza, measles, diphtheria, yellow fever, and whooping cough. Smallpox was one of the epidemics that surrounded the Atlantic slave trade from the 15th to the 18th centuries.
Diseases like smallpox were known for causing a significant decrease in the indigenous population of the New World.
An explanation to aid in understanding the logistics behind the extensive population decrease includes the topic of immunity. The native population was not immune to this disease in that they did not have the pathogen required to resist the disease. Those such as the European colonizers and the African slaves brought to the New World, however, did possess this pathogen due to having been previously exposed to smallpox.
It was known to be a common illness many underwent as children, which in turn built up their immunity to withstand this disease. As a result of the Native Americans no longer being able to work the lands as the labor required them to mine gold and silver , European colonizers, such as the Portuguese took advantage of their access to regions of the African continent such as Angola from which to extract another source of labor in which Africans had proven to be prime candidates in that they survived this case of the disease- also known as variola intermedius- while the Natives had continued to fall to the various illnesses.
Effects of smallpox included fever, bodily eruptions, and was very noticeable in the disfigurement seen of the face, hands, and feet. This illness is a viral disease, contracted through contact with an exposed individual and through the air, and no drug treatments for it were available.
Some Europeans, who believed the plague of syphilis in Europe to be the fault of the Amerindians, saw smallpox as the European revenge against the Natives. For many diseases, the African and Eurasian population were able to have already acquired immunity- being able to resist an infection- due to prior exposure as children in which they were less likely to receive the same illness again. Upon arrival, these diseases were transmitted to the Native populations who did not have immunity due to no prior exposure having been from climates in which these germs, and pathogens surrounding these diseases were not common.
Having been exposed to the illness as an adult, some effects would prove to be more enhanced than if they were to be at an adolescent age. Evolutionary history also played a role in being immune to the diseases of the slave trade. Compared to African and Europeans, New World populations did not have a history of exposure to the disease, and therefore, no genetic resistance could be maintained as a result of adaptation through evolution.
Levels and extent of immunity varies from disease to disease. For smallpox and measles for example, those who survive are equipped with the cellular immunity to combat the disease for the rest of their life in that they cannot contract the disease again. There are also diseases in which immunity does not guarantee that an individual is not susceptible to becoming reinfected. Due to a limited knowledge on the causation and range of effects of diseases surrounding the event of the slave trade, there were little to no methods for inoculation present during the time.
In the late 16th century with the increased presence of smallpox, there existed some forms of inoculation or sometimes referred to as variolation in Africa and the Middle East. One practice features Arab traders in Africa "buying-off" the disease in which a cloth that had been previously exposed to the sickness was to be tied to another child's arm to increase immunity. Another practice involved taking pus from a smallpox scab and putting it in the cut of a healthy individual in an attempt to have a mild case of the disease in the future rather than the effects becoming fatal.
As epidemiology advances, causes and effective treatments are being discovered to combat historically destructive diseases such as syphilis- which in today can be treated with simple antibiotics such as penicillin and other medications that can inhibit and rid the body of harmful bacteria. The trade of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic has its origins in the explorations of Portuguese mariners down the coast of West Africa in the 15th century.
Before that, contact with African slave markets was made to ransom Portuguese who had been captured by the intense North African Barbary pirate attacks on Portuguese ships and coastal villages, frequently leaving them depopulated. The alarming decline in the native population had spurred the first royal laws protecting them Laws of Burgos, — The first enslaved Africans arrived in Hispaniola in While at first these planters had relied almost exclusively on the native Tupani for slave labour, after they began importing Africans, as a series of epidemics had decimated the already destabilized Tupani communities.
By , Africans had replaced the Tupani as the largest contingent of labour on Brazilian sugar plantations. As Britain rose in naval power and settled continental North America and some islands of the West Indies , they became the leading slave traders. But, following the loss of the company's monopoly in , [97] Bristol and Liverpool merchants became increasingly involved in the trade.
Birmingham , the largest gun-producing town in Britain at the time, supplied guns to be traded for slaves. The first slaves to arrive as part of a labour force in the New World reached the island of Hispaniola now Haiti and the Dominican Republic in Cuba received its first four slaves in Jamaica received its first shipment of slaves in The first enslaved Africans to reach what would become the United States arrived in July [ citation needed ] as part of a Spanish attempt to colonize San Miguel de Gualdape.
By November the Spanish colonists were reduced to , and their slaves from to 70 [ why? The enslaved people revolted in and joined a nearby Native American tribe, while the Spanish abandoned the colony altogether The area of the future Colombia received its first enslaved people in El Salvador , Costa Rica and Florida began their stints in the slave trade in , and , respectively. The 17th century saw an increase in shipments. Africans arrived in the English colony of Jamestown , Virginia in The first kidnapped Africans in English North America were classed as indentured servants and freed after seven years.
Virginia law codified chattel slavery in , and in the colony adopted the principle of partus sequitur ventrem , which classified children of slave mothers as slaves, regardless of paternity. Irish immigrants took slaves to Montserrat in , and in slaves were shipped [ by whom? By , Russian colonists noted that "Boston" U.
The number of the Africans who arrived in each region is calculated from the total number of slaves imported, about 10,, Risks—maritime and commercial—were important for individual voyages. Investors mitigated it by buying small shares of many ships at the same time. In that way, they were able to diversify a large part of the risk away. Between voyages, ship shares could be freely sold and bought. By far the most financially profitable West Indian colonies in belonged to the United Kingdom.
After entering the sugar colony business late, British naval supremacy and control over key islands such as Jamaica , Trinidad , the Leeward Islands and Barbados and the territory of British Guiana gave it an important edge over all competitors; while many British did not make gains, a handful of individuals made small fortunes.
This advantage was reinforced when France lost its most important colony, St. Domingue western Hispaniola, now Haiti , to a slave revolt in [] and supported revolts against its rival Britain, after the French revolution in the name of liberty. Before , British sugar had to be protected to compete against cheaper French sugar. After , the British islands produced the most sugar, and the British people quickly became the largest consumers. West Indian sugar became ubiquitous as an additive to Indian tea. It has been estimated that the profits of the slave trade and of West Indian plantations created up to one-in-twenty of every pound circulating in the British economy at the time of the Industrial Revolution in the latter half of the 18th century.
Historian Walter Rodney has argued that at the start of the slave trade in the 16th century, although there was a technological gap between Europe and Africa, it was not very substantial. Both continents were using Iron Age technology. The major advantage that Europe had was in ship building. During the period of slavery, the populations of Europe and the Americas grew exponentially, while the population of Africa remained stagnant. Rodney contended that the profits from slavery were used to fund economic growth and technological advancement in Europe and the Americas.
Based on earlier theories by Eric Williams, he asserted that the industrial revolution was at least in part funded by agricultural profits from the Americas.
He cited examples such as the invention of the steam engine by James Watt , which was funded by plantation owners from the Caribbean. Other historians have attacked both Rodney's methodology and accuracy. Miller has argued that the social change and demographic stagnation which he researched on the example of West Central Africa was caused primarily by domestic factors. Joseph Inikori provided a new line of argument, estimating counterfactual demographic developments in case the Atlantic slave trade had not existed. Patrick Manning has shown that the slave trade did have a profound impact on African demographics and social institutions, but criticized Inikori's approach for not taking other factors such as famine and drought into account, and thus being highly speculative.
No scholars dispute the harm done to the enslaved people but the effect of the trade on African societies is much debated, due to the apparent influx of goods to Africans. Proponents of the slave trade, such as Archibald Dalzel , argued that African societies were robust and not much affected by the trade. In the 19th century, European abolitionists , most prominently Dr. David Livingstone , took the opposite view, arguing that the fragile local economy and societies were being severely harmed by the trade. Because the negative effects of slavery on the economies of Africa have been well documented, namely the significant decline in population, some African rulers likely saw an economic benefit from trading their subjects with European slave traders.
With the exception of Portuguese controlled Angola, coastal African leaders "generally controlled access to their coasts, and were able to prevent direct enslavement of their subjects and citizens". The Kingdom of Benin, for instance, participated in the African slave trade, at will, from to , surprising Dutch traders, who had not expected to buy slaves in Benin. Such benefits included military technology specifically guns and gunpowder , gold, or simply maintaining amicable trade relationships with European nations.
The slave trade was, therefore, a means for some African elites to gain economic advantages. Many West African countries also already had a tradition of holding slaves, which was expanded into trade with Europeans. The Atlantic trade brought new crops to Africa and also more efficient currencies which were adopted by the West African merchants. This can be interpreted as an institutional reform which reduced the cost of doing business. But the developmental benefits were limited as long as the business including slaving.
Both Thornton and Fage contend that while African political elite may have ultimately benefited from the slave trade, their decision to participate may have been influenced more by what they could lose by not participating. Historian Eric Williams in argued that the profits that Britain received from its sugar colonies, or from the slave trade between Africa and the Caribbean, was a major factor in financing Britain's industrial revolution.
However, he says that by the time of its abolition in it had lost its profitability and it was in Britain's economic interest to ban it. Other researchers and historians have strongly contested what has come to be referred to as the "Williams thesis" in academia.
Seymour Drescher and Robert Anstey argue the slave trade remained profitable until the end, and that moralistic reform, not economic incentive, was primarily responsible for abolition. They say slavery remained profitable in the s because of innovations in agriculture. Karl Marx in his influential economic history of capitalism Das Kapital wrote that " He argued that the slave trade was part of what he termed the "primitive accumulation" of capital, the 'non-capitalist' accumulation of wealth that preceded and created the financial conditions for Britain's industrialisation.
The demographic effects of the slave trade is a controversial and highly debated issue. Although scholars such as Paul Adams and Erick D. Langer have estimated that sub-Saharan Africa represented about 18 percent of the world's population in and only 6 percent in , [] the reasons for this demographic shift have been the subject of much debate. In addition to the depopulation Africa experienced because of the slave trade, African nations were left with severely imbalanced gender ratios, with females comprising up to 65 percent of the population in hard-hit areas such as Angola.
Ramusack have suggested a link between the prevalence of prostitution in Africa today with the temporary marriages that were enforced during the course of the slave trade. Walter Rodney argued that the export of so many people had been a demographic disaster which left Africa permanently disadvantaged when compared to other parts of the world, and it largely explains the continent's continued poverty.
According to Rodney, all other areas of the economy were disrupted by the slave trade as the top merchants abandoned traditional industries in order to pursue slaving, and the lower levels of the population were disrupted by the slaving itself. Others have challenged this view. Fage compared the demographic effect on the continent as a whole. David Eltis has compared the numbers to the rate of emigration from Europe during this period.
In the 19th century alone over 50 million people left Europe for the Americas, a far higher rate than were ever taken from Africa. Other scholars accused Walter Rodney of mischaracterizing the trade between Africans and Europeans. They argue that Africans, or more accurately African elites, deliberately let European traders join in an already large trade in enslaved people and that they were not patronized. Inikori argues, the history of the region shows that the effects were still quite deleterious.
He argues that the African economic model of the period was very different from the European model, and could not sustain such population losses. Population reductions in certain areas also led to widespread problems. Inikori also notes that after the suppression of the slave trade Africa's population almost immediately began to rapidly increase, even prior to the introduction of modern medicines.
Enslaved Africans came from rice-producing regions in Africa ensured prosperity of rice plantations in North America. Of those brought to South Carolina during the late 17 th and early 18 th centuries, 43 percent came from rice-producing regions of Africa. The colonists' dependency on knowledge and experience of rice cultivation meant that the enslaved Africans possessed a comparatively large amount of bargaining power. The method of using the tidal flow to cultivate rice transformed the coastal Southeast between and the early 19 th century.
It was a highly productive method that was practical only on the lower stretches of a few rivers from the Cape Fear in North Carolina to the St. Johns in north Florida. The initial investment to create a tidal rice plantation was substantial and took a tremendous amount of backbreaking labor as well.
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African people are never lazy folks as it was erroneously believed and propagated by some nationalities from other places of the world. If history was to be believed, African continent was one of the first places of the world where civilization and technology started even when others from other regions of the world were still looking for what to hold to support their walking exercise. Africa was one of the first fast growing Continent of the world in the acquisition of science and other human related knowledge, the study of solar system and other planets from its God given bank of knowledge.
Universities of Timbuktu and Cairo is in a better position to attest to this fact from their records.