African Slaves were originally sold by other African slave traders. Slaves were a large portion of the populations of each settlement when colonization was starting. The Spaniards really started to cultivate the slave trade as a way to colonize faster. The other settlements like the Dutch, France and Great Britain soon followed. Each nation was colonizing the Americas for different reasons. This in tern made the idea of land different for each nation. One obstacle that each nation faced was the the native tribes already living in the Americas. All four nations that originally colonized the Americas all ran into the same obstacles and had over come them all in their own ways. Spain was the first nation to try and colonize the Americas. …show more content…
They needed this first step of contact with the native people so they could establish proper relations with them. The Dutch along with the Spaniards and the French and Great Britain all brought their religions to the new Americas. All of these nations had people who where running from religious prosecution of their main State Church. For example; “One of those who had suffered for his religious beliefs was Albertus van Raalte. After being imprisoned for holding unauthorized church services, van Raalte decided to emigrate to America”(Simkin). With so many people coming to the Americas because of religious prosecution there was a melding pot of religions. All four nations had come to the Americas with different tactics to colonize the Americas and the first step in colonizing the Americas was to create positive relations with the natives. Spain came to the Americas with brute force and resistances from the natives in Americas. France had seen how the Spaniards where failing in their conquest of the Americas and went the other way about colonizing. The French knew that if they went the same route as the Spaniards they would not get very far. Therefore, the French went the route of trade …show more content…
When they did not get the gold they where looking for the Pope decided to still colonize the Americas to further spread Christianity. France wanted to colonize America because they wanted to furtherer their trade routes and increase their profits. Great Britain also came to America for the same reason for furthering their trade routes and making larger profits. All four nations where looking for a passage that went through the Americas to the Asian content. They all believed the first to find this mythical passage was to become the wealthiest nation. All four nations believed that to have complete control of the Americas they needed to acquire vast amounts of land. The Spaniards viewed the land that the natives had been living off of as theirs and that the natives where so un human that they did not have the rights to the land they lived on. They also believed that God was the reason the natives where giving up their land, for example in the essay called The American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World written by David E. Stannard he sates “The admiral “took possession” of it – and of all the people it contained. And “nobody objected.” Clearly, God was on the Spaniards’ side” (Stannard, 7). Stannard is pointing out that the Spaniards believed in their conquest so much that they actually believed that God was on their
Beginning of the 15th and 16th centuries, Europeans began to explore in the Atlantic Coast of Africa. They were mainly lured into the excessive trade in gold, spices and other goods without knowing about slaves in Africa. Nonetheless, Europeans had no success of taking over these African states to achieve all of these goods but later they did take over various regions in other areas. Africans seems to be willing to sell as many as 11 million people to the Atlantic slave trade to the Europeans. Thus, this makes them the first people to have slaves not the Europeans that forced them into this trade. Furthermore, at the start the Africans seems to have full control of the slave trade, but the Europeans came in and slowly dominated the trade without the Africans knowing. Later on, the trade was overturned and everything went back orderly.
From this short blurbs of what is said about the west they make inferences of what it is like, and how can it be possible for another land mass to be unknown to many for so long. But for those who do know what is past the Atlantic know that this Agenda of the King and Queen must be fulfilled and to do so would be to claim land for Spain for it to be settled upon. On top of that is to further collect riches of the Americas to benefit Spain in conquest of the Americas. Bartolome de las casas had hoped to prevent further harm to Indians, and clarify that they were not barbarians.
The first African slaves were brought to the colony of Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. They were brought over so that they could aid the production of crops. Caucasians believed they were superior then the Africans thus making them slaves. Many believed they could profit from having slaves. Example: instead of paying someone to work the filed or do any hard labor whites used Africans as slaves. The Africans would work for free and the slave owners would save money. Realistically speaking the treatments of slaves varied from a mild mistreatment to a sadist horrific torture.
The Roman Catholics were one of the first Europeans to disembark in the New World. In addition, there were the Spanish Catholics. There were two missionary efforts of the Spanish that attempted to convert the Native Americans to Christianity. One of their attempts revolved around the priests and their ability to spread the faith. This attempt did not work for several years, until finally, in 1595, the Franciscans were able to progress with their plans. Furthermore, another attempt was when the Spanish used force to enforce their Christian belief. They were outnumbered by the Indians and therefore brought weaponry and soldiers to keep them at bay. Their reason behind the missionary efforts was that they were ordered to spread Christianity to the Native Americans by a holy spirit.
Religion played an integral role in the development and culture of the Spanish, French, and British colonies and extended into their relations to Indians. While many settlers sincerely wanted to convert the Indians to Christianity, there were settlers who used religion as a tool to both control and civilize Indians. The Indians who were exposed to the practices of conversion had experienced both suffering and benefitting from their relations with colonists. Throughout the early history of the colonization of New World, witchcraft had also figured into the religious observations of the groups that had led groups of settlers into a state of hysteria and panic which was indirectly related to their relations with the Indians.
In this paper we will be talking about how Spain and Portugal conquered the Americas, their relationship between the economy, their education system, and their present day relationship. Throughout the paper you will start to realize that Spain and Portugal are very similar countries, maybe due to the fact that they’re both European counties. They have the same educational system, and government system. Spain and Portugal have a long history; they go all the way back to the1492 .Which is when Columbus first started his voyage to explore the West, which ended up in an argument over the land. Spain and Portugal worked as a team to conquer the Americas. In today’s world Portugal and Spain work together when it comes to drug trafficking and forest fires. They also seem to be good allies to one another, they share the same currency and both have high unemployment percentage.
There are many different factors that make up the motivation of the colonization of British North America in the Seventeenth century. Throughout the documents, there are a few words that come to mind time and time again when thinking about the English and French. Some of these words are greedy, adventurous, and religious. The English and French have many differences in the way they wanted their societies to be, and how they controlled the societies.
The Spaniards arrived at the Americas prior to the English. The Spanish mainly wanted to explore in the first place because after the Black Death, the population increased, and thus, so did the frequency of commerce. There was a sudden new interest in new products and the new strong monarchs who sponsored the journeys wanted to be more affluent. Therefore, explorers such as Christopher Columbus attempted to go west to target Asia. However, he ended up on Cuba and called the natives Indians. The Spanish soon started to consider the Americas less of a blockage and could now see it as a source of resources. In 1518, Cortes arrived into Mexico with his group of conquistadors, or conquerors, which is a proper name because the men after gold exterminated native areas using their military skills, brutality and greed to turn the Southern America into a vast Spanish empire. The smallpox the Spanish unknowingly carried also helped wipe many people out. When they saw the religious ceremonies of the Aztecs that produced many skulls, they thought of these people as savages and not entirely human. This of coarse was quite hypocritical because the Spanish have killed before during the Inquisition for their faith. It was this contempt that made them think it was all right to slaughter the natives. Spanish colonies were established when conquistadors had gotten a license to finance the expedition from the crown to fixture encomiendas. These encomiendas were basically Indian villages that became a source of labor. The Spanish dreamed of becoming wealthier from South America, but they also wanted a profitable agricultural economy and to spread their Catholic religion (the Pueblo Indians converted to Christianity), which became very important in the 1540s.
The first real country to colonize the Americas, aside from the Norse colony Vinland that traded with the Native Americans (Goldfield, 15), were the Spanish. The Spaniards primary goal in colonization of this world was the idea of “Reconquista”, or the conversion of heathens, namely the natives, to Christianity. They believed they had “religious justification for conquest” (Goldfield,
Portuguese and a few of Spanish people started the slave trade, which the African slaves was taken to the American colonies. Slaves were sold at a slave market, which shows in Source A. In Source B, it shows the cost of the slaves during the period of 1804 to 1861, this proves that the slavery is really a good business at that time. In Africa the slave trade let to the creation of powerful West African kingdoms, profited from selling slaves to the Europeans. In Britain, 12, 000 boats travelled with 2, 600 000 slaves as well as in Holland wherein 2000 boats travelled with 500, 000 slaves in
The purpose for colonizing North America was for expansion of territory, trade, and assimilation. The rise of colonialism in North America began after Spain sent Columbus to Asia but discovered the Americas in 1492. Spain created and maintained the first colonies for nearly 400 years followed by France then England. Spain had absolute monarchy over its colonies with the King taking complete control. France used their colonization for trade and England used the charter system to set up their colonies (Carney, 2013).
Reaching towards the peak of trade, Europe faced difficulties in trading with Asia due to sections of multiple trade routes being dominated by Muslims. This meant that men were lost and it took a great amount of time to be able to give and receive the products being traded. This was when Christopher Columbus proposed a solution, believing that a route which sailed west through the Atlantic Ocean, would be a much safer and faster way of trading with Asia.
The English began colonizing North America for economic, social, and religious reasons. In the 1600s, there were many tensions rising in England. There were disputes over land. At the time, there was simply not enough land to sustain the population. During this time, many people were also looking to move up in social status. They were no longer satisfied with where they were. There was also mounting religious conflict during this time. England implemented a nationwide religious policy. Many people disagreed with forcing a religion on people; therefore, they chose to leave England in search for religious freedom. For these reasons, people chose to migrate to North America.
Slavery has been around since Christopher Columbus's exploration. One thing that many people do not realize is that slaves were sold by their own people in the beginning. African Americans were sold by other superior African Americans, just as Native Americans were. Black slavery evolved in the Chesapeake Bay area during the 1800's. However, the earliest Africans in America were not slaves. The Africans were indentured servants. An indentured servant was a person that was between a slave and a freed men. Before the rise of indentured servitude, a huge demand for labor existed in the colonies to help construct settlements, harvest, and serve as tradesmen. Indentured servants was a good idea for America colonists because there was a need for cheap labor. Africans agreed to become a servant for exchange of costs paid to enter British North America. The
Many of Africans that were brought into slavery were from the western and central part of Africa. These Africans were enslaved by either other western Africans or western Europeans, who were then sold and most commonly shipped off to the newly discovered parts of the world such as the Caribbean, Brazil, and America. Slaves were brought into the Caribbean and Brazil mostly for the sugar industry in which they would plant, harvest and process the sugar ten out of twelve months of the year working days as long as thirty five hours. While in America they were used for housework, skilled trades work and on occasion as sailors but the majority worked as agricultural Laborers for tobacco, sugar, cocoa and cotton plantations.