LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
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treating their own servants badly
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offering to work for low pay
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exchanging people for goods
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making slavery illegal in Africa
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Detailed explanation-1: -West African Trade West Africans had traded with Europeans through merchants in North Africa for centuries. The first traders to sail down the West African coast were the Portuguese in the 15th century. The Dutch, British, French and Scandinavians followed.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Portuguese, in the 16th century, were the first to buy slaves from West African slavers and transport them across the Atlantic. In 1526, they completed the first transatlantic slave voyage to Brazil, and other Europeans soon followed.
Detailed explanation-3: -Many Africans turned to the trans-Atlantic slave trade to expel their opponents or to garner profits. The population loss and disruptive effects on social, political, military, and labor systems caused by the trans-Atlantic slave trade varied in scale depending on the African region and group.
Detailed explanation-4: -Colonial authorities and landowners forced them to serve as slave labour in the Caribbean and in North and South America. A pattern emerged called “triangular trade.” European merchants brought trade goods from Europe to Africa. In Africa, they exchanged their goods for enslaved people.