Module 4 is very eye opening simply because I learned a slew of things about how this African Slave Trade went into play. This module has showed a lot of facts that no one even thought about, such as the Portuguese starting the whole thing, every since I've been in school I thought the Europeans were the main ones to control the entire Slave Trade. But unfortunately during my whole school career has been a tall tale. Finding out that approx. 20 million slaves were traded during that time was outstanding to find out. Learning that in the different African Communities they didn't mind selling one another which made the African Slave trade industry grow was very saddening to find out, simply because treating people like animals were sickening. Over the fact that a simple opinion such as a change of religion. Also reading from the weekly assignment (Slavery and Spanish Colonization) finding out that the Portuguese trying to make Natives or "Indians" slaves at first wasn't working so they began to look for a different source, and that source turned out to be West Africa. Along with slavery came a great amount of Agriculture growing sugar was the main crop that had to began to boom during the 16th century. Spain and Portugal were the ones to began this whole trade situation, Sugar had became one of the highest product demanded during that time.Columbus's Voyages in 1492 had opened up a whole new world for the Atlantic Slave Trade. Allowing countries such as Spain, Portugal, France, Dutch, and England to establish colonies with in the Americas. The Caribbeans and Brazil was the place were the mass majorities of slaves went, which was an a astonishing fact to find out, because I always thought that the United States had the most slaves only to find out that the US had a small percentage of 4 -5%. Brazil received the most percentage of slaves they had over 40% , any British or Caribbean had a percentage of 25% and any other Spanish country located in South America only received a small 7%. During this entire module I learned a lot of new information that needs to be taught every where textbooks should stop twisting these stories and reveal the truth. I am excited to continue to learn more about this era.
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“Grade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic Slave Trade.” South African History Online, www.sahistory.org.za/article/grade-7-term-2-transatlantic-slave-trade.
Hey Essence! Nice post, I really agree with your opinion on slavery and I was also surprised to see that the United States got the least amount of slaves from the slave trade, I always thought that America had received most of the slaves but I was wrong. I think that we have similar perspectives and it is enlightening to read something that I agree with 100%.
ReplyDeleteI am very interested in this topic and you had a lot of great points you made that caught my eye great post.
ReplyDeleteBe more specific with your comments. What was interesting and why? What great points and what made them great? This is too short and vague.
DeleteI didn't know the slave trade was started by the portugese as well. This module has taught me a a lot, Christopher Columbus is the only thing i remember learning about as far as the slave trade growing up. thanks for your interesting blog posts!
ReplyDeleteI also never knew that Portugal was the country to start all of this. I was always lead to believe it was the Europeans too, which makes me wonder why my schooling has failed me up to this point. While yes it is sad to find out that the African Kingdoms sold slaves to each other, I feel that maybe they were less harsh about the slavery as a whole, or at least that's the impression I got while researching. I find it disheartening that Columbus tried to make the Natives slaves and ultimately failed and turned to the Africas for his new target. I have always wondered why they didn't use their own people like the Africa Empires did. Anyway, I like your post, nice job!
ReplyDeleteHey essence,
ReplyDeleteAfter reading your reflection, I noticed how much. in-depth you went into your reading. what caught my eye was the matter of Africans selling other Africans as slaves, which made no sense at all. It was some gruesome events that occurred during this slave trade that affected the lives of people for years to come. Great reading and reflection.