Translantic slave trade (1 ene 1580 año – 1 ene 1700 año)

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The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The vast majority of those who were enslaved and transported in the transatlantic slave trade were people from Central and West Africa, who had been sold by other West Africans to Western European slave traders (with a small number being captured directly by the slave traders in coastal raids), who brought them to the Americas.

The vast majority of those who were enslaved and transported in the transatlantic slave trade were people from Central and West Africa, who had been sold by other West Africans, or by half-European "merchant princes" to Western European slave traders (with a small number being captured directly by the slave traders in coastal raids), who brought them to the Americas.
The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were forcibly transported to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. The circumstances were absolutely horrible during this journey.
Once arrived in the new world, these circumstances didn’t get any better.

Why slaves?
 The plantations required lots of work
 Hereditary slavery : generations of free labour.

The cotton gin
The invention of the cotton gin caused massive growth in the production of cotton in the United States, concentrated mostly in the South. Cotton production increased significantly. As a result, the region became even more dependent on plantations and slavery, with plantation agriculture becoming the largest sector of its economy. While it took a single slave about ten hours to separate a single pound of fiber from the seeds, a team of two or three slaves using a cotton gin could produce around fifty pounds of cotton in just one day,

Language as means of control
The colonists would systematically forbid people (slaves) from using their native language, which helped them keep those people under control. Forcing colonized people to speak their colonizer's language was damaging because doing so took away their identity.

Pidgin language
The pidgin language developed among the slaves, since traders would put slaves of different language backgrounds on the same ship to prevent any rebellion. These slaves felt the need to communicate somehow and therefore created their own language.

Creole language
A creole is a pidgin language which has become a mother tongue. Unlike pidgin, which is simplified, a creole is a complete language, used in a community. An example of a creole is Jamaican Patois which is an English-based language with West African influence.

Status language
‘Afrikaans was perceived by the black community as the language of authority and repression; English was perceived by the white government as the language of protest and self-determination. Many blacks saw English as a means of achieving an international voice’

What Is Mercantilism?
Mercantilism was an economic system of trade that spanned from the 16th century to the 18th century. Mercantilism is based on the principle of maximising your export, and minimising import.
Trade became triangulated between the British Empire, its colonies and foreign markets, fostering the development of the slave trade in many colonies, including America. The colonies provided rum, cotton, and other products demanded by African imperialists. In turn, slaves were returned to America or the West Indies and traded for sugar and molasses.

Treatment of Slaves
Slaves were punished by whipping, shackling, hanging, beating, burning, mutilation, branding, rape, and imprisonment. Punishment was often meted out in response to disobedience or perceived infractions, but sometimes abuse was performed to re-assert the dominance of the master (or overseer) over the slave.

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