The Spread Movement: The Atlantic Slave Trade

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The Atlantic Slave Trade
A widespread movement that occurred over four hundred years ago in Europe had left a huge impact on countries during those days and now. This movement is called the Atlantic Slave Trade. What actually was the Atlantic Slave Trade? This movement was started by the Europeans who had just recently discovered the New World but their economy was not as great. New land in the world meant they needed more workers to engage in the activities, this was the main point for this movement. The Europeans took Africans from their homes and they were deported to the New World of America and put to work. There were various places where they worked such as in mines or plantations. It was then referred to as the “African Nightmare”, because
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The men and women were forced into the slave ships and taken across the Atlantic Ocean over to the West Indies. Both the men and women had their hands tied up with willow twigs, and they are being watched over during every one of their movements. This trip proved to be a very uncomfortable one because all of the men and women were tightly packed together, there was no room to breathe or even move. This trip through the Middle Passage lasted a good three weeks, and in this duration, there were many slaves that died from diseases, starvation, and some just due to despair. The slaves were fed twice daily, and there were also air holes to help them breathe. If there were dead bodies they would just be overthrown. The slave ships were either loosely or tightly packed to fit as many of the slaves as they can. As soon as the destination was reached, the slaves were all inspected by a doctor to tell whether the slave will survive or not before the purchase of the slaves. The slaves would be traded for goods such as guns, gunpowder, rum, textiles, or trinkets. Those who were told as they could not survive were left to suffer and ended up dying. This is a very cruel way of treating a human being only for the reason that they will get work done in their country. The way they treated them was not a good representation of starting a New World just because they …show more content…
The majority of slaves who were taken to the New World through the triangular trade route and the Middle Passage were the Africans due to their ability to withhold carrying serious diseases. The Africans were brought in very harsh conditions and they were taken away from their normal lives to having to conduct labor in the New World. A vast majority of slaves were taken from Africa through horrific conditions and were put through even worse conditions in the Americas. So why Africans? The Africans were able to not be so immune to diseases like other tribes were. They also had very good military strength, and they included a more convenient and cost-effective slave market. The Africans were also less likely to commit suicide. This Slave Trade had been a very rough time for the Africans because everyone thought they had no feelings and that it was easy to keep them under one’s control. The Slave Trade was a remarkably important time during this century because it played a crucial role in developing a modern world economy. Slavery was a very widespread movement at this time and they thought it helped them improve their countries. Slavery was the cheaper way to meet the demand for labor in many different jobs. Slaves were put through very hard times, but together they all got through it in the end, and the Slave Trade was put to an end. Although the slave trade was put to an end, slavery