African+slave+Trade

=__African Slave Trade__=

Slavery was a part of Africa's history and they have been doing it since ancient times. Southwest Asia was the primary area for slaves and they were used as domestic servants. Slavery was also present in Europe and during the late 15th century thousands of slaves were exported from Portugal every year and most of them were domestic servants. With the discovery of sugarcanes in America created a demand of slaves to farm the sugarcane because most of the Natives were killed by diseases and there wasn't enough slaves to farm the sugarcane. So, African slaves were sent to America to work on these farms to grow sugarcane.

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__Growth__
In 1518, the first boat of slaves were shipped from Africa to America to work as servants. The trade of slaves grow dramatically because of the trade with America and they became part of the triangular trade and this became a new world economy. Triangular trade connected Europe, Africa and Asia, and America. Europe would ship manufactured goods, like guns, cloth, and utensils to Africa, then Africa would ship slaves to America and sold. America then would sell tobacco, sugar and cotton to Europe were they would be sold at markets. http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=african%20slave%20trade&source=video&cd=2&sqi=2&ved=0CDkQtwIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.howstuffworks.com%2Fdiscovery%2F29888-assignment-discovery-atlantic-slave-trade-video.htm&ei=V3PhTu6qBujz0gHe9fzABQ&usg=AFQjCNEALLo1c8DNXxpQyw9raARo8PUloA

275 000 Africans were expected to be sold during the 16th century and around 2 000 were sent to America every year. This total increased in the 17th century to 1 million and again to 6 million in the 18th century. This had to do with the trade spreading across all of Africa. One reason for this was the fact that so many deaths along the journey. The route between Africa and America was called the middle passage, this was the middle of the trip and it was were most of the slaves died from diseases. Owners would rarely allow their slaves to have children because it was cheaper to buy a new slave then raise a baby so more slaves needed to be shipped from Africa.

__Trade Slave Effects__
The slave trade greatly effected the lives of many individual families of Africa because of their losses. Also it caused a depopulation of many areas and it deprived Africa of its strongest men and woman. The need for local slave traders to provide a supply of slaves for Europe and this led to an increase of war in Africa. Coastal region leaders and their men armed them self' with guns and raided near by villages to get slaves. This all caused great depletion in population in Africa with all the slaves shipped off and the ones killed through war.