Dbq Slave Trade Analysis

There are many theories as to the start of slave trade and its effects on the people and countries/colonies involved.The Native American population had decreased due to disease and war and did not have enough labor. However, the Europeans had access to another cheap labor market that already existed, the African Slave Trade. While the use of slaves has existed in societies already, it was not until the mid-fifteenth century that Europeans began trading and capturing slaves from Africa. Between 1450 and 1870 over ten million people were taken from Africa for slavery. The Europeans did this because the gold that was out in the open was gone and it was to be mined so they had to hire people to do it. (Document 1)
Slavery was one form of exploitation. Its special characteristics included the idea that slaves were property. Their labor power was at the …show more content…
The slaves didn’t know how important coffee and sugar were to Europe but they did know that they were forced to work and were beaten so Europe would have these things. While Europe kept taking slaves though, America had been depopulated to they could plant these things and Africa had been depopulated so they could get slaves to work on these plantations. These slaves were worked in all weathers. It was never too hot or too cold. It could never rain, blow, hail or snow too hard for them to be in the field. When America received these slaves to work on the plantations, they sent there goods to Europe. (Document 6)
The slave trade had affected other colonies too. King Kongo wanted to stop the slave trade of Portuguese to Kongo’s, because even though the king of Portugal is benefitting from slavery king Kongo’s is not. Portugal’s people were given permission to go to Affonzo’s land and sell things, but Affonzo’s land prohibits the things they sell. This badly affects the security of their kingdom. Portuguese people are taking the natives for slave trade and sell