Africa and Atlantic World
By: Matthew and Franklin
The Social Effects Of The Slave Trade
Africa suffered serious losses from the slave trade and capture of the Africans. The Atlantic trade alone deprived the African society by about 16 million people. Another factor was several million were captured and sent into Islamic slave trade. West African societies between Senegal and Angola were especially vulnerable to slave capture because the region was close to slave trade ports. The slaves himself suffered from anxiety and depression due to the capture and terrible conditions they faced.
The Political Effects Of The Slave Trade.
The slave trade brought turmoil to African societies. during early modern times African peoples fought many wars for reasons that had little or nothing to do with the slave trade, but it encouraged them to participate also in conflicts that might never have occurred in the absence of the trade.
The Plantation System In The New World (What cash crops were produced)?
Most African slaves were brought to large plantations in the tropical and subtropical regions of the Western Hemisphere, in the fifteenth century, most of these plantations were producing sugar, since it was one of the most profitable cash crops of the time. By the seventeenth century, tobacco was also another profitable cash crop, as well as rice and indigo. By the eighteenth century, most plantations cultivated cotton, and coffee emerged as a specialty.
Slaves Resistants
Conditions were so bad, slaves often tried to starve themselves. The sick were thrown of the ship to prevent others from being infected and to not waste food. They also tried to revolt against the men taking them to Americas, by rioting and trying to overthrow the ship.