Trans-Atlantic voyage

Introduction:

The report is based on African experience while on the Trans-Atlantic voyage from Africa to America and how this Diaspora has affected African American identity today. The illusion of making a transatlantic voyage by boat is always a passionate dream of all, as people have done in history. Although most people tend to have imageries of the continent revolve around the wild and untamed African territories, there are actually considering this land makes a journey by train is a luxury to watch and remember for a lifetime. 

When we talk about the history, the enslaved Africans were cooped up in merchant ships and transported from the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the Caribbean. They were one of the first global "commodities" served as an ideological justification for the various theories that superiority of whites towards blacks. The slave trade was fundamental to the economic boom of the American colonies. Therefore, slavery was officially promoted side. Used demands were a lot of cheap labor, flexible and wherever applicable which were new lands to the farm. This large covered the European colonists with slaves imported from Africa. (Callahan, p. 176)

With the rediscovery of America in 1492, it opened doors to an unknown market, with its economic cultivation and a shortage of workers which moved to the one encountered in the form of shipments of African slaves. This was a very rational decision: the need for labor in the mines had the Europeans never be able to cope alone, both because of the small number of settlers and by diseases that they expected in the "New World". The indigenous peoples of America were "filler" out here, as they the introduced by Europeans diseases were victims and the complete subordination to the Spanish (encomienda) and Portuguese forced labor system refused in which there was a large discrepancy between theoretical and practical design.

Sometimes the Europeans went into Africa itself on slave hunting, and most slaves were but local rulers and merchants on the African coast bought. Since the war was the main source for prisoners, as the Europeans could sell slaves to the slave trade also led to more conflicts in Africa. (Gates, p. 139)Discussion:

Slavery and the slave trade are among the worst human rights violations in the history of mankind. The transatlantic slave trade was something unique in the history of slavery because of its duration (four years), scale (approximately 17 million people, excluding those who died during transport) and the legitimacy that is granted, even under the laws of the time.

The transatlantic slave trade was the biggest deportation in history and is often considered the first example of globalization. It lasted from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century and included various regions and continents: Africa, North America and South America, Europe and the Caribbean, and resulted in the sale and exploitation of millions of Africans by Europeans.

The geographical origin of slaves for America is varied and covers the West African coast and the coast of Mozambique in the east. Given the Muslim influence in northern Africa, and in the sixteenth century the Spanish crown forbade the shipment of slaves to America from areas north of the river Senegal. The Portuguese brought their slaves mainly from the regions of Congo, Angola and Mozambique. The British concentrated on the area of the Upper Guinea. In fact many of the captured slaves were sold elsewhere in the mouths of the rivers ...