Essay On Slavery Triangle

Imagine how it would feel being thrown in the bottom of a boat with hundreds of other people, piled on top of each other and shipped like merchandise across the Atlantic ocean. Many Africans were a part of the triangular trade. The first stop of the triangle trade was from Europe to Africa. There, they traded small things for slaves. The next stop was from Africa to the New World. There, the slaves were sold to American colonies or the Caribbean. After the new world, they washed the ships down and loaded them with goods to ship back to Europe with things like sugar, rum and molasses. Once the slaves were sold to their new owners they were brought back to the owners workplace to start working.

Everyone wants to make money, but how people made money in the 16th through 19th centuries was a lot

different than we do now. Today to make money you get a job and work to earn money to live off of. Another way you can make money in the modern world is to start your own business and pay people to work at it. But in the 16th centuries white people did not want to do they work themselves, or pay someone a lot to do work for them. People simply wanted to make money without doing it themselves, or paying a lot for someone to do it for them. Although this was very wrong, it’s what they wanted. Each slave owner had different tasks for their slaves to do. Some were working on farms harvest cash crops, some were churning milk into butter, and some were washing clothes. It all depended on what the slave owner wanted. To get what they wanted, they bought slaves to do it for free.
The work that had to be put into harvesting these cash crops was dreadful. Know one wanted to do it because it was so physically hard to do even for just one hour, let alone a full day, every day. Picking cotton hurt your fingers, harvesting sugar made your backache, and on top of all that, it was very hot. Many people were very dehydrated because of sitting in the sun all day working. These crops were a huge money maker for the slave owners because of how much the slaves would produce, and they were in high demand so everyone would buy them.
White men decided that they want to make more money, and one way to do that was to make slaves do their work for free.

Once the slaves were hauled off the ship they were stripped of their clothing, rinsed down and displayed for purchase. There was one flaw with plan, slaves did not want to work for white people. Slaves would try to run away from the farm, or factory they worked at but many got caught. Being a slave as a woman, child, or man was equally bad. Some women were raped by their owner, and the children were often sold across the states. Being a man slave, you would have countless hours of brutal work everyday, seven days a week. If you disobeyed your owner, the most common punishment would be being whipped. Some owners were nicer than others, but the majority of slave owners were extremely horrific to their slaves.

Slaves were permanently damaged physically and emotionally for the rest of their lives because of the things done to them by their owners. Slaves were a breathing, working, object to their owners. They were supposed to do what they were told and nothing else. Slaves were not a human to their owners, they were property because they were bought to do

work.
During the 16th centuries the world changed for Africans. They were viewed as animals and no white person respected them. They were not allowed to have families, friends, or live a happy life. Africans were not allowed in public, they were only to remain at their residence with the other slaves. Ever since slaves were used, Africans have never been treated the same way. Even after the 13th amendment (slavery) was abolished by the senate on April 8th 1864, and the house on January 31 1865, there has always been the problem of racism. Black people were banned from using certain water fountains, bathrooms, and even going to some schools. Today, those rules have changed, and people are more mixed together. Over the years people have become less racist, but some things will never be the same because of what was done to Africans. Hopefully one day everyone will be viewed the same.