1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
nordsb [41]
2 years ago
6

How did the Europeans obtain their slaves

History
1 answer:
Vedmedyk [2.9K]2 years ago
3 0

During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, European traders started to get involved in the Slave Trade. European traders had previously been interested in African nations and kingdoms, such as Ghana and Mali, due to their sophisticated trading networks. Traders then wanted to trade in human beings.


They took enslaved people from western Africa to Europe and the Americas. At first this was on quite a small scale but the Slave Trade grew during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as European countries conquered many of the Caribbean islands and much of North and South America.


Europeans who settled in the Americas were lured by the idea of owning their own land and were reluctant to work for others. Convicts from Britain were sent to work on the plantations but there were never enough so, to satisfy the tremendous demand for labour, planters purchased slaves.


They wanted the enslaved people to work in mines and on tobacco plantations in South America and on sugar plantations in the West Indies. Millions of Africans were enslaved and forced across the Atlantic, to labour in plantations in the Caribbean and America.


Slavery changed when Europeans became involved, as it led to generation after generation of peoples being taken from their homelands and enslaved forever. It led to people being legally defined as chattel slaves.


A chattel slave is an enslaved person who is owned for ever and whose children and children's children are automatically enslaved. Chattel slaves are individuals treated as complete, property to be bought and sold. Chattel slavery was supported and made legal by European governments and monarchs. This type of enslavement was practised in European colonies from the sixteenth century onwards.


Europeans wanted lots of slaves, so people were captured to be made slaves.

Enslaved Africans were transported huge distances to work. They had no chance of returning home.

Children whose parents were enslaved became slaves as well.

How were they enslaved?



Although some of the enslaved were forced to travel long distances to reach the coast, the costs of moving slaves, including the risk of deaths, meant that the homeland of the majority of enslaved Africans, who were taken away by the British, lay within a few hundred kilometres of the Atlantic coast.


Slave forts were established all along the coast of West Africa, to house captured Africans in holding pens (barracoons) awaiting transport. They were equipped with up to a hundred guns and cannons to defend European interests on the coast, by keeping competitors at bay. There were approximately 80 castles dotted along the slave-trading coast. The forts had the same basic design, with narrow windowless stone dungeons for captured Africans and fine European residences.


The largest of these forts was Elmina, in modern day Ghana. The fort had been fought over by the Portuguese, the Dutch and finally the British.  At the height of the trade, Elmina housed 400 company personnel, including the company director, as well as 300 'castle slaves'. The whole commerce surrounding the Slave Trade had created a town outside the castle, of about 1000 Africans.


In other cases, the enslaved Africans were kept on board the ships, until sufficient numbers were captured, waiting perhaps for months in cramped conditions, before setting sail.


The ethnic groups of the enslaved Africans


The British traders covered the West African coast from Senegal in the north to the Congo in the south, occasionally venturing to take slaves from South-East Africa in present day Mozambique.


Some areas or venues on African Atlantic coast were more attractive to traders looking for the supply of enslaved people than others. This attractiveness was dependant on the level of support from the local chieftains rather than geographical barriers or the demography of local populations. Where there was cooperation it was easier to maintain order and efficiency in the process of the trade.




You might be interested in
The storming of bastille occured when?
Charra [1.4K]
The storming of Bastille happened on July 14 1789.
4 0
3 years ago
In past centuries, european nations colonized countries in
WARRIOR [948]
Basically: everywhere else. 

the European countries colonized countries in America: 

mostly Spain, Portugal and Great britain

In Africa: 

Mostly Great Britain, France and Portugal

and in Asia: the Netherlands, Great Britain and France

and various small Islands on the Pacific

You can usually tell which country was colonized by which country by its official languages, for example, Angola has Portuguese as its official language and we can tell that it was colonized by Portugal
4 0
2 years ago
Why did artisans organize medieval craft guilds
Vinvika [58]
Because of here ability
4 0
3 years ago
Who first proposed that Armistice Day be renamed Veterans Day?
kotykmax [81]
It was Dwight D. Eisenhower who proposed that Armistice Day be renamed Veterans Day--the original name coming from the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson following World War I.
6 0
3 years ago
Why were Louis Philippe and his prime minister Guizot overthrown in the Revolution of 1848? Select one: a. An influential group
Vikki [24]

Answer: d. They cracked down on people who were having dinners in support of Republicanism

Explanation:

Louis Philippe was the last King of France and was overthrown in the Revolution of 1948. This was by no means an isolated incident however as discontent had been growing in the kingdom for a while.

Discontent at poor economic reforms, Louis's refusal to grant political reforms, unemployment and bad harvests were some of the problems that bombarded Louis in his last few years as King and led to people opening calling for a Republic.

Activists who sought this Republic needed a way to meet and make their views known and as they could not do this through political gatherings and demonstrations which were outlawed, they turned to banquets.

In these banquets/ dinners, the people were able to speak their mind and criticize the regime to their hearts content. This did not sit well with the Government who decided to outlaw banquets in February 1948. This was <em>the Straw that broke the camel's back</em> and saw the people revolt against the monarchy. Louise then abdicated and fled to England.

4 0
2 years ago
Other questions:
  • Can someone tell me what the middle class is during the medieval times and how it came to exist?
    13·1 answer
  • Who founded the religion of Hinduism
    14·1 answer
  • Who is the father of nationalism?​
    10·1 answer
  • Which of these factors did NOT influence the Texas Bill of Rights?
    7·2 answers
  • WILL GET BRAINLIEST
    9·2 answers
  • What 3 powers do the National government have
    8·1 answer
  • HELPPP ASAP aim make you Brainly if your right
    14·1 answer
  • 3. Which party supported independent small farmers? *
    15·1 answer
  • How is Johnson’s speech similar to Kennedy’s speech?
    13·2 answers
  • Why do you think Germany was upset with the Treaty of Versailles?
    15·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!