Slavery And The Slave Trade - 2968 Words

The history of slavery is long, documented, captured in photos and personal narratives of slaves and slave owners. There are many accounts of how slavery started, the horrific stories of transporting slaves and what they were used for throughout history. To start at the beginning you have to start with how slaves were placed in different countries and continents where they were not born. Most know about the Atlantic slave trade that effected North America, South America and the Caribbean. Slavery existed way before the foundations of America were set in stone. There was slavery in the bible days between the Hebrews and Israelites. Some do not know besides the Atlantic slave trade there was also the Eastern Slave trade. There was also†¦show more content†¦India had a number of African slaves until the British invaded in 1843. (discoveringbristol.org) Slaves that were taken into Northern Africa and the Middle East were not always African. Some arrived from the Mediterranean. (Unesco.org staff) Africans were taken from the coast of Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar during the East African Slave Trade. They also hailed from the Savannah area which included Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan and the Horn of Africa which includes Djibouti, Ethiopia and Somalia and were sold to merchants in Northern Africa and the Middle East. Some of the slave women were married to their masters and had children by them. Slaves soon became a part of the local population. Most plantation in the North Africa, the Middle East and India were spice and food plantations requiring less work from men. In the seventeenth century it was estimated that over ten thousand slaves were sold per year to the Middle East and North Africa. There was a small number of slaves who were sold to the Persian Gulf including countries such as Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Oman and what is now the United Arab of Emirates. The French also found a use in selling slaves to grow sugar plantations on the islands the country owned along the Indian Ocean. Brazil also brought African slaves for assistance in sugar plantations. By the eighteenth century slavery had increased rapidly and were in high demand for