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their works on the topic, namely (Lindsay, 2007):
1. The slave trade's African context,
2. Its history, and
3. The resultant change in the meaning of racism and race.
African nations didn't exactly separate politics from religion, and kings' conversion had mixed motives: sincerity and efficiency were compatible, in both age-old African religions and the Iberian Catholic Church. In the area of sex and business, African kings contributed significantly to forming and strengthening relationships with European colonialists, and were usually led to believe they were enjoying the better part of the bargain. Northrup has concentrated on particular areas like textiles,… Continue Reading...
trips to the areas of trade, thereby allowing other countries to experience the religion as well (Debrouse).
The European Slave Trade
Apart from of the significance of trade in the spread of Islam throughout Asia and Africa, the slave trade of Europe also had great significance, especially in South Africa and other areas in Southern Africa. During the seventeenth century, the Dutch started to trade Muslim slaves from Southeast Asia to Southern Africa so as to labor in their farms. All through the eighteenth and nineteenth century, England made use of Muslim and Hindu Indians as slaves in their sugarcane fields in South Africa, despite the fact that these… Continue Reading...
moving hundreds of thousands of people from one part of the continent to another (and even all around the world, once the Arab slave trade began). This destabilizing effect made slavery an immoral practice even though it was a financially profitable practice for those who engaged in the slave trade.
The Atlantic slave trade is seen as one of the worst examples of slavery to come out of Africa, with estimates of the number of slaves sold during this time to be between 8 and 20 million Africans (Curtin, 1972). This slave trade lasted for centuries, spanning the 15th to 20th century. Many people lost their lives because of the harsh conditions of… Continue Reading...
have been witnessed from the slave trade period to the colonial period, and now the neocolonialism era have done little to remedy the exploitative relationship between developed countries and the less developed nations. As a matter of fact, the said transitions only relate to the mechanics of the unfair engagements. According to Mukhtar, Kura, Abba, and Ahmed (2013), “the external slave trade (especially between Africa on the one hand and Europe and the New World on the other) and colonialism were two important episodes that markedly affected the economic development of the African continent during… Continue Reading...
description that is given in the excerpt from Alexander Falconbridge. Here, Alexander F., (1788) describes the slave trade experience he had at the coast of Africa in 1788. The cross cultural experience he had by visiting the coast of Africa was a culture shock to him and as can be seen, he describe the slave trade as it happened without putting in his personal opinion. This is an indication of the indifference in the negative effect his culture had on the cultures of the locals. It never seemed to bother him that the influx of the foreign cultures destabilized the local cultures and the slave trade… Continue Reading...
natural resources available from those territories, also enabling rapid population growth. Manifest Destiny also perpetuated the slave trade and the institution of slavery by opening up new territories that would be incorporated as slave states that could continue to produce goods without having to pay for labor: an issue that precipitated the Civil War (“Manifest Destiny,” n.d.). Other economic consequences of Manifest Destiny include the ability to capitalize on new transportation and communication technologies including the railroads, steamboats, and telegraph (Haynes, 2006). These technologies facilitated territorial expansion, but also enabled the growth of new markets. Moreover, the American economy was facing stiff competition with Britain and… Continue Reading...
also set a precedent for what would become a series of contentious compromises between Americans who supported racism and the slave trade and those who recognized the ways slavery contradicted the underlying principles of the democracy. Likewise, James Monroe carried on the American legacy of compromise, and is remembered most by the Monroe Doctrine and the Missouri Compromise. The years between 1789 and 1840 established the principles and practices of Manifest Destiny, and Westward expansion, creating what would become a superpower just a hundred years later. This half-century also revealed the schisms in American society, particularly regarding federalists versus anti-federalists, and racists versus abolitionists. Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe both… Continue Reading...
by the practice of slavery. In essence, her ancestors and the rest of the black community went to the Americas during the Transatlantic Slave trade that brought Africans to work as slaves (Ilham, 12). In her poems, she uses different tones of emotions that include anger, sadness, aspects of guilt and despondency and hopelessness. The hopelessness comes from the fact that slavery seemed to be one thing that was difficult to stop as new forms of slavery emerge. In the poem, "My Guilt", she says:
My guilt is "slavery's chains" too long
The clang of iron falls down the years.
This brother's sold, this sister's gone,
Is bitter wax, lining my ears.
My… Continue Reading...
something loftier: freedom from British rule. The monstrosities committed during the slave trade and subsequent periods are part of our history. Acknowledging them as a form of hideousness we overcame shows we can triumph… Continue Reading...
Economic, Political, and Social History
African American culture arose out of the turmoil and despair of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. From West African port towns to plantations, African American culture is unique in that it was forged under the pressure of bondage. People with different cultures and languages formed new identities relative to their subordinate social, economic, and political status—their culture therefore being in part defined by the experience of oppression and the determination to overcome it. Bereft of social, political, or economic independence for centuries, African American culture nevertheless emerged as organically as any other, but flourished especially after emancipation.
Yet the economic history of African American… Continue Reading...
into slavery in modern times than at the height of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. The internet has played a huge role in exploding the modern human trafficking market. From predators using the internet to find potential victims to kidnap and force into service to dark web users using dark marketplaces to buy and sell human beings, the internet has opened up a number of opportunities for those that would prey on others.
The Murky Government Origins of the Dark Web- While the dark web may be known as a marketplace for criminal behaviors and ideas, it originated as a government project. This… Continue Reading...
Trans-Atlantic slave trade. The internet has played a huge role in exploding the modern human trafficking market. From predators using the internet to find potential victims to kidnap and force into service to dark web users using dark marketplaces to buy and sell human beings, the internet has opened up a number of opportunities for those that would prey on others.
The Murky Government Origins of the Dark Web- While the dark web may be known as a marketplace for criminal behaviors and ideas, it originated as a government project. This… Continue Reading...
of post-colonial missionary work. One of the letters refers to the Beebout’s visit to a former slave trade port in Benin, as the authors reflect on the inhumanity of slavery without mentioning the complicity of Christians with the institution of slavery in the United States.
Message
A collection of videos and letters offer primary source data about the nature of Jeremy and Susan Beebout’s missions within the RCA. The most recently touted mission is the partnership with the Evangelical Church of the Republic of Niger (EERN). An analysis of the most recent ten letters and five videos shows that the Beebout projects are focused on Niger,… Continue Reading...
made a significant stride towards equality for all. This is best understood from a background of the slave trade era where race was the primary determinant of an individual's place and role in the society. After racial discrimination was overcome through activism, primarily in the US, the next global issue, as concerns discrimination, was gender. Women were discriminated in the society as their role was considered to be limited to the home, household chores, and wife responsibilities. However, and through education and technology, gender is no longer the primary global issues in the subject of discrimination, but rather, social discrimination. In the 21st century social standing is… Continue Reading...
