Slave trade

• Slave is a person forced to work for free. Usually are treated as personal property, with no rights.
• What is the defination of a slave?

  Is a person forced to work for free. Treated as personal property, with no rights
• Slavery is treatment of human beings as property, deprived of persoanl rights.
• Slave Trade is the capturing, selling and buying of enslaved people.
• Europe to Africa brought guns, cloth, iron bars, and cowries
• Africa to the new world/americas brought millions of slaves and is called the middle passage
• The new world/Amercias then exported coffee, sugar, cotton and tobacco to Europe
• Neverthelands, Portugal, Germany, Spain, Denmark, France and other Europeans countries were involved in slave trade, capturing mainly in west and central Africa.
• They had discovered the new world, Caribbean islands, south and north america (Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica and Haiti) which proved to be ideal for sugar plantation.
• By that time sugar was very scarce and exphensive in Europe. Sugarcane became one of the worlds most profitable crop.
• But there was need for labour for this lucrative business and Europeans looked no way but Africa
• The Europeans tried to enslave te indigenous people of the new world but that never worked as most of them died of old disease or could not cope with hard labour.
• Europeans loook to Africa. Thus came to be known as Transatlantic Slave trade and the genesis of Triangular trade.
• Rampant epidemic disease which the natives had no prior exposure to was one of the main causes of the massive population decline of the indegnois populations of the Americas.
• Diseases like smallpox, typhus, measles and influenzo were responsible for the desturction of large segments of the Caribs, Arawaks, Beothuks and Mesoamericans and other indigenous empires.