Chapter 14 Part 2

• 12.5 million people from African societies were shipped as slaves between the years of 1500 and 1866
• 1.8 million died during transportation
• slaves were captured and sold, displaced from home cultures, forced to work, took beatings and brandings, and suffered from being broken up from their families
• the slave trade brought an African presence to the European and Native American people
• added elements of their culture to the European and Native American people
• elements including: religious ideas, musical&artistic traditions, and cuisine
• The Americas slave trade was distinct
• the size of the traffic of slaves was huge
• the location of the slave trade was very central to the colonial America
• based on plantation agriculture
• treated slaves as property; lacking any rights
• slave status was inherited throughout the generations, little to no chance of freedom
• racial dimension
• Africa became main source for slaves
• Native Americans began to die from diseases very quickly
• slave trade produced major stagnation in the economy as well as social disruption
• economically: produced very little positive changes 
• socially: shaped African societies; fostered moral corruption
• Female role in the slave trade
• more labor demands for women
• more men could marry multiple women
• female slaves within West Africa increased
• provided opportunity to express power and accumulate wealth for the smaller numbers