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How did the European slavers get the slaves and why did they take the slaves?
The slave traders that came to Africa had a ready made supply of slaves from the villages along the coast. These villages thrived on the sale of slaves they captured for the passing traders.Without this ready made supply, the industry would have been unable to survive. Had the traders been required to find their own slaves, they would have moved on to different fields.Trading of humans for the purpose of slavery was a common practice up until the 1800's. Many different cultures and groups have been slaves. White individuals from Ireland have been slaves in Africa is just one example.Jewish people in Egypt is another. The difference here is that Blacks were the last group to legally become slaves. They are also the last group in the United States to be slaves under law. Today, we still have forms of slavery, but they do not involve the trading of individuals from Africa. Asia is the current group of choice.
What made the Dutch East India Company different from other European traders in Asia?
The Dutch East India Company (VOC) was distinct from other European traders in Asia due to its unprecedented level of state support and its status as a sovereign entity. Established in 1602, it was granted a monopoly on Dutch trade in the East Indies and had the authority to make treaties, wage war, and govern territories. This allowed the VOC to establish a powerful and efficient trading network, often using military force to secure its interests, unlike other European traders who operated primarily as private enterprises. Additionally, the VOC's innovative financial structure, including the issuance of shares, enabled it to raise substantial capital for its expansive operations.
Did the European treat the africans fairly?
Well first of all the answer to your question is no. The Europeans treated African slaves horribly. They made them work all day. Slave trading between Africa and Europe began with the Portuguese, who were the first European nation to make continuous contact with Africa. African slaves were mainly taken to Europe to be used on a land that needed slaves. If a slave got tired, and slowed down or stopped, they would get a punishment. Sometimes slave owners would rape their slaves, raping is one of the many cruel and mean things done to slaves. Raping a slave wasn't even against the law! Sometimes slaves were beaten so harshly that they nearly bled to death. Slaves couldn't have an education, and it very hard to escape slavery.
What were slaves used for in Europe?
they made sandwiches for their masters
What were four reasons for the dramatic increase in the number of Africans enslaved between the 1500s and the 1700s?
1. The colonies in the Americas depended on slave labor to work on their plantations. The owners tried to make as much money as possible, so they wanted cheap labor.2. People who enslaved Africans and then sold them made a great deal of money.3. Some African tribes actually helped the slave traders and allowed their people to be captured. Also, many African nations could not defeat the slave traders.4. Many European nations who participated in the slave trade had more and better weapons to capture slaves, and the Africans were helpless to defend themselves.
Who made money out of slavery?
The slave traders who sold slaves to slave owners.
Who was the European whose descriptions of the riches of china made traders want to go to Asia?
Marco Polo
Why did Africa sell their own people as slaves?
They didn't. Africans were often kidnapped by colonists to be slaves in America. That statement is not correct. Do your homework. Some were kidnapped and not by colonist, but slave traders. Others were sold by their own people. They either owed a debt, were captives of war, criminals, or had charges made up to make them look like criminals, to be sold off for a profit.
How did the European slavers get the slaves and why did they take the slaves?
The slave traders that came to Africa had a ready made supply of slaves from the villages along the coast. These villages thrived on the sale of slaves they captured for the passing traders.Without this ready made supply, the industry would have been unable to survive. Had the traders been required to find their own slaves, they would have moved on to different fields.Trading of humans for the purpose of slavery was a common practice up until the 1800's. Many different cultures and groups have been slaves. White individuals from Ireland have been slaves in Africa is just one example.Jewish people in Egypt is another. The difference here is that Blacks were the last group to legally become slaves. They are also the last group in the United States to be slaves under law. Today, we still have forms of slavery, but they do not involve the trading of individuals from Africa. Asia is the current group of choice.
What year was African slavery introduced to European nations?
Well after the African Moors made slaves of the Europeans.
Why did the slave traders separate family members?
Back then, people made money selling slaves by removing them from families to sell to other countries. Adults were often sold to buyers.
Why were African slaves used instead of Native Americans or indentured servants?
Slaves were resistant against harmful diseases brought by the Europeans.Indentured Servants began to finsh there years of work there masters sood dicovered that slaves knew how to grow cash crops such as rice and were used to doing work on plantations for that is what they did at home.
Did Europe gain slaves in the Triangle Trade?
Yes and no. Slavery never caught on in Britain and a few other European countries. European traders sold European goods to another country in return for slaves. Those slaves would be sold to another country which, in turn, provide things like sugar, tea and other luxurious items as payment. This rather unfair and mostly cruel trade contributed to the agreement of the abolition of slavery in 1807 and the final bill of slavery being made illegal in 1833.
Who were people captured by in the slavery?
The slave traders made certain coastal tribal chiefs their allies, and initially bought their prisoners of war as slaves. This prompted those chiefs to actively hunt and trap people from other tribes deeper in the interior, eventually trading with still other tribal chiefs for enough slaves to fill the ships. In other words, traders got some tribes to capture members of other tribes for them.
Why did the south American Indian population fall sharply during the colonial period?
Very simple they were killed, made slaves, and died of European disease.
Why do they have black people as slaves and not white people?
There's been slavery in different shapes since earliest recorded human history, and probably some time before that as well. Blacks kept blacks as slaves, white kept whites as slaves, and so on. Vikings kept slaves, called thrals. Part of Europe kept serfs, which were pretty darn close to slaves. Why blacks became slaves to whites in a large scale was basically because they were suddenly very available. American/european traders had more money, trading goods and better weaponry, so once shipping was under control it became easy to nip down to Africa, pick up a boatload, ship it off somewhere and make a bundle of money out of it. Of course it helped that black people looked very differently. That made it easy establish the concept of "us" and "them", to justify why they were so horribly treated.
How did the southern making a living?
Southern states had huge plantations of tobacco, cotton. So, ther ewere the plantation owners, the guards who supervised how the slaves worked, some acountants, and estate stewards. They were dependent on Black slave labour. The slaves were bought and sold in slave markets, a lot of merchants made their living by transporting slaves from Africa to America -they were the slave traders.
