Slavery

January 28, 2016

Chapter 14 

Between 1500 and 1866 there was a tremendous human slave trade going on. It was mainly African societies that were being brought from across the Atlantic Ocean and to the Americas. During this time, slavery was generally accepted as a perfectly normal human enterprise. Over the years, slavery was past down for generations, and there was little hope of eventually having freedom for the new generations. A lot of Europeans died like flies when they went to get more slaves, since they lacked common tropical diseases. Africans were giving their own people to the Europeans because they were exchanging their people for goods like European and Indian textiles, cowrie shells, metal goods, fire arms and gunpowder, tobacco, alcohol, and various decorative items such as beads. 

I believe this had to be the worst time to live as a human. I mean, who would want to be controlled by someone you don't even know. I don't understand why people would do such a thing.

In my opinion, I hate reading about slavery and how it all happened because of the way people (the slaves) were treated. How could we do such things to each other. I don't understand why Europeans saw Africans as something less or different. They are humans too, just of different color. I'm glad this is something from the past, because everyone (mostly everyone) learns from it and tries to change so it won't happen again.