SOCIAL EFFECTS OF THE SLAVE TRADE

• Significant Gender Imbalance

  •   esp in West African states
  •   more woman than men be men were sold off more
• Change in Family Structures

  • rise of polygyny
  •   the phenomenon of men marrying more than one woman
• Cultural Synthesis

  • growing emergence of creole languages in the Caribbean and Brazi
• Effects: Changing Belief Systems

  • religion became a huge justification for colonialism in the americas
  • in some cases, indigenous groups outwardly adopted Christianity but privately continued to practice their own religious beliefs
  • sometimes when this was discovered it led to severe brutality
  • effect was a religious syncretism that resulted in a blending of some Christian beliefs and practices with indigenous beliefs and practices