1. Slavery and the Middle Passage
In Robinson's agreement with the group of planters, he puts forward the requirement that his plantation be looked after, and that should he not return, they would do with the plantation what Crusoe wished9. This is a prime example of efficient intelligence being performed by Robinson Crusoe, as he plans for the potential eventuality of his failure to return. ... British colonists who travelled abroad would have primarily an economic motive, but alongside the desire to trade and make money, the British would attempt to spread Christianity to the native peoples they encountered. ...
Olaudah Equiano, a native of the African province Eboe and author of The Interesting Narrative experienced the cruel and inhumane life of a slave. ... He faced slavery on several fronts, in his native Africa, the West Indies, Europe and America. ... He was in constant fear of being sold to "human butchers, who cut and mangled the slaves in a shocking manner on the most trifling occasions, and altogether treat them in every respect like brutes." (105) Beyond these fears, slaves were forced to labor unmercifully for their master's and in return were underfed and ill-treated as ignorant me...
By setting aside their forced leaving of their native Africa the slaves emerged with new identities with local roots but all based on their strong cultural belief and need for kinship. ... Unfortunately for the Anglican ministers they did not have much success at this time and returned home bemoaning their failure to convert no more than a handful of slaves. ...
As early as 1680 the majority of the slave population was native-born. ... They found that the rates of return on a slave were quite high and that holding slaves was quite profitable. The average rate of return of a male or female slave was about the same, around ten percent. ... This was a blow to all the theories that slavery was unprofitable and that slaves had low rates of return. It also showed that the rates of return were higher and not below that of alternative investments. ...
Portugal had been present in Western Africa for several years but in 1445 the King, Henry the Navigator instructed his sailors on their way to the continent to win over the natives so they could purchase human beings to be used as free labour rather than to kidnap them as they had done previously4. ... Africans were believed to have higher levels of strength and 'humour' than European workers or the Native Americans and, therefore, considered the more effective work force in this new industry. As the demand for sugar across Europe soared so did the demand for African slave labour, s...
"The bargain included the exchange of votes on the extension of the slave trade for twenty years in return for support the Deep South for majority vote in the Congress rather than a super majority of two-thirds," this allowed both sides to claim victory without the knowledge of it (Ellis 94). ... There was no Africans or Native Americans," because the image of America was thought of a white, nothing else (Ellis 101). ...
The opportunity to find slaves in the Americas was nixed when many of the Native Americans died from the foreign European pioneers' diseases. ... After the slaves were traded for commodities such as textiles, gunpowder, and pearls, the ships then crossed the Atlantic, and returned to Europe with American agricultural exports such as tobacco, cotton and sugar (Slave Trade et. al. 2014, 2). ...
George Washington's belief was to lead Virginia into an expedition to challenge French claims at the Allegheny River Valley. This was accomplished in 1753. In 1754, Washington led Virginian forces against French at Fort Duquesne in the upper Ohio River Valley. Washington also builds Fort Necessity a...
He made a speech in the House of Commons in 1792 in which he said, "I know of no evil that has ever existed worse than the tearing of 70,000 or 80,000 people each year from their native land. " He frequently and strongly voiced his opinions to the rest of the MPs to try to persuade them to join the cause for although he was Prime Minister he still had to gain enough votes from his counterparts to pass the act. ...