Dbq On African Slavery

How did the Atlantic Slave trade in 1760-1810 affect Africa? This question is significant because, the Atlantic Slave trade greatly impacted the lives of the African Americans who were sold or traded into someplace else, depending from whom the offer was made. Slaves were nobody. They had no voice or any rights. Nobody cared for what the African Americans thought or felt.

During the 15th century to the 19th century according to Wilson Aravjo Silva, “9 Million sub-Sahoron Africans were brought to the Americas as slaves; about 40% of them were probably brought to Brazil (Klein 2002). This forced migration to have a tragic impact on some African societies and determined that part of the history of Africans began to be written outside Africa.”

This piece of evidence shows how the Africans were forced to be brought to America and some to Brazil. By this separation, some slaves could have been separated from their friends and family. This could have been a major reason for why it had a great impact on the African society. It is difficult in general to live in a new place with new people; but being all alone for it, with no support, and being sent to an unknown place and trying to cope with people. Even knowing the fact, you are there not for your own good but for being used as a slave for another person. They did not choose to, they were forced.
E.S.D Fomin and Michael M.

Ndobegang both stated,” Using the Grassfields of Cameroon as a case study, this paper shows how the study of these artifacts exposes not only how African Slavers perceived and treated slaves but, more importantly, how these artifacts were used in regulating and controlling the trade.” This piece of evidence describes that by looking at the artifacts, it was able to tell how the African Slavers recognize and treat the slaves, but not only that, it was also able to identify the adjustment and control of the trade. However, in the lack of this evidence, it does not describe how the African Slavers treated the slaves, if it were good or bad. It also does not say how it influenced the control of the trading system. Also the evidence could have been affected or have been made bias based on the information that they have found, because,”... a great number of these artifacts of material history were seized, destroyed or looted by European colonists and Christian Missionaries, which accounts for their scarcity.” Obviously, the Europeans as well as the Christian Missionaries had something to hide. They would not have taken the time to seize, destroy and loot the artifacts of the Africans. The African artifacts clearly contained something that threatened and could harm the Europeans and the Christian Missionaries. This piece of evidence does not include the reason for why they (Christian Missionaries and Europeans) felt the need for destroying the artifacts

and not wanting other people to see them. It just says what the artifacts had an impact on, but it never explained why.
What also persuaded the death rates in the late 1700s during the Atlantic slave trade was that, there were many diseases that would contribute to the death cause of the slaves while they were on board.

There would be, “Crew members died primarily from fevers (probably malaria) and slaves died primarily from gastrointestinal diseases.” As well as, “The spread of dysentery among slaves during the voyage was probably exacerbated by congestion and poor nutrition.” This shows how the slaves and the crew members got sick once they were in Africa. However, it all determined in which part of Africa you were on, as well as when. According to, Richard H. Steckel and Richard A. Jensen, “Death rates differed systematically by region of origin in Africa and season of the year.” This piece of evidence also provided facts on how Africa was affected during the Atlantic slave trade. It gives us reasons on how Africa would affect the people who came and left, in this case, the slaves and the crew members. This showing how Africa was in poor condition to sustain a healthy

life.
In conclusion the Atlantic slave trade caused suffering throughout the slaves and as well as fear to others. Many deaths were contributed because of Africa's environment conditions and because of the conditions in which they road the voyage in. It did not matter how stable the slaves were in any shape or form, they were still taken away\to suffer or die.