HISTORY
NEW GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
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Question
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Many of the enslaved people died from dysentery, smallpox, and other diseases.
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The slave traders’ ships often sank in the stormy waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
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The crews of the slave ships murdered large numbers of the enslaved people.
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Some enslaved Africans rebelled and were killed; many others committed suicide.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Disease and starvation due to the length of the passage were the main contributors to the death toll with amoebic dysentery and scurvy causing the majority of deaths.
Detailed explanation-2: -European settlers brought a system of slavery with them to the western hemisphere in the 1500s. Unable to find cheap labor from other sources, white settlers increasingly turned to slaves imported from Africa. By the early 1700s in British North America, slavery meant African slavery.
Detailed explanation-3: -Why did so many enslaved Africans die during the Middle Passage? They were treated cruelly, chained and crammed tightly into ships. many died from disease and mistreatment. How did the slave trade damage some African states, but help others?
Detailed explanation-4: -Ivory, gold and other trade resources attracted Europeans to West Africa. As demand for cheap labour to work on plantations in the Americas grew, people enslaved in West Africa became the most valuable ‘commodity’ for European traders. Slavery existed in Africa before Europeans arrived.
Detailed explanation-5: -This remarkable growth was the result of two factors: (1) continued importation of new slaves from Africa and the Caribbean; and (2) natural population growth, especially among American-born slaves, who lived longer lives and bore more children than African-born slaves.