African Slave Trades

Slave trades in Africa have excited for thousands of year, among white people who have black slaves. This was mosly with the Europeans coming to Africa and taking people against their will. They were taking to Europe to be servants for all of the rich people. Although they were taking slaves against there will the slave trade was well established before the Europeans arrived. Many people were domestic slaves, working in rich households and most women were used as sex slaves. Seven million African were sold into slavery on the coast of the Indian Ocean, the Middle East and North Africa. There were Tewle million African slaves taken to America, and around five million Africas were taken across the Sahara and East Africa into slavery in other parts of the world. Most of these slaves were traded for more important things that people needed. Over One period of time between 10 and 28 million slaves were sent over seas from Africa. Tippu Tip was one of the well known slave traders in the Africa area. He was the gradson of an enslaved African. Tippu Tip and his men took African people from their homes to sell them. From an area that stretched over one thousand miles from inland to the coast.

Most preferred to trade on the West coast of Africa, as this was cheaper and more convenient. After the ships stoped carrying out their trade in West Africa, the traders began to find it more and more difficult to trade and ship slaves there. So they started to travel to down around Cape of Good Hope to buy and take more slaves to sell. But after the British Navy defeated the slave trade in the Atlantic, the East African slave trade increased.

There was alot of money along with the slave trades. Most slave traders used the money to buy raw materials such as sugar, cotton, coffee, metals, and tobacco which were shipped back and sold in Europe. Slavery created and then relied on a large support network of shipping services, ports, and finance and insurance companies. New industries were created, processing the raw materials harvested or extracted by slaves. The slave trade contributed significantly to the commercial and industrial revolutions. Cities such as Liverpool and Amsterdam grew wealthy as a result of the trade in humans.

Work sites:

1. africanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa080601a

2. www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr4.html
3. amistad.mysticseaport.org/timeline/atlantic.slave