Like many cultures, African slaves passed their traditions down orally. From singing in the fields to jumping the broom at weddings, the slaves made sure that their traditions and culture stayed alive, even in the face of such awful abuse.
Africans were seen as a good choice for slaves in the Americas for several reasons, including their experience with agricultural work, resistance to tropical diseases, relative immunity to European diseases, and their perceived physical strength which made them suitable for labor-intensive tasks. Additionally, cultural beliefs at the time perpetuated the dehumanization of Africans, making it easier to justify enslaving them.
Africans were chosen as slaves due to their physical strength, resistance to diseases like malaria, and perceived cultural inferiority by Europeans at the time. Additionally, the transatlantic slave trade had already established networks in Africa that made it easier to procure slaves from the continent.
The journey of Africans who were brought as slaves to the Americas is known as the Transatlantic Slave Trade. This was a brutal and inhumane system where millions of Africans were forcibly taken from their homelands and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to be sold as slaves in the New World.
The Spanish used captive Africans for forced labor in their colonies, primarily in agriculture, mining, and domestic service. Africans were also used as slaves to generate wealth and resources for the Spanish Empire.
An estimated total of 4 million Africans were sent to Brazil as slaves during the transatlantic slave trade. Brazil received the highest number of enslaved Africans out of all the countries in the Americas.
Africans were seen as a good choice for slaves in the Americas for several reasons, including their experience with agricultural work, resistance to tropical diseases, relative immunity to European diseases, and their perceived physical strength which made them suitable for labor-intensive tasks. Additionally, cultural beliefs at the time perpetuated the dehumanization of Africans, making it easier to justify enslaving them.
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They were but they did not make good slaves. The purchace of Africans from the Africans gave better slaves.
No, the slaves of West Africa were not primarily Jews. The majority of slaves transported from West Africa during the transatlantic slave trade were native Africans of various ethnic groups. While there were enslaved Africans who practiced Judaism, the overall population of slaves from West Africa consisted of people from diverse cultural, religious, and ethnic backgrounds.
African slaves syncretised their native beliefs with the Catholic religion. While nominally Catholic, many of their descendants still hold beliefs that are identifiably African, such as Candomblé and Umbanda.
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Africans changed Jamestown because they used Africans for slaves.
Africans sold their slaves Europeans purchased the slaves the Africans were selling. Unlike Africans, Europeans wanted the adult males for hard labor
their greatest contribution was their labor.
Alexander attributes the perception of Africans as ideal slaves to factors such as physical traits, geographic location, cultural differences, and historical context. He suggests that Europeans viewed Africans as suitable for slavery due to their physical strength, skin color, geographical proximity to trade routes, cultural practices that were unfamiliar and therefore deemed inferior or barbaric, as well as the historical precedent of slavery in African societies.
As slaves.
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