slavery.........?

Question

a. when did slavery begin?

b. why did europeans bring africans to the americas?

c. what r three examples of bad conditions faced by enslaved africans?

4. wat were the long term effects of slavery in the americas?

Answer 1

a. Slavery has been around as long as mankind been around. America did not invent slavery
b. for money and trade.
c. long work (no pay), dirty living conditions, no freedom
d. that they still think of it today and use it as an excuse for everything. It prevented many blacks from growing and expanding intelligently because they are stuck on what happened nearly 300 hundred years ago.

Answer 2

Slavery is as old as humanity. In its oldest form, slaves were taken from enemy tribes to replace the labor and contributions of the people who had died recently. Women and children were favored, as they were less rebellious than adult males. In many places once the captives learned to speak the language of their captors and proved their economic worth, they could earn their freedom. Rarely were the children of slaves counted as slaves.
In the Roman world, slavery was an important institution. But slaves could buy their own freedom and at least one, Seneca, became a famous philosopher. In addition, Roman slavery wasn't based on race.
According to Biblical teachings, masters should release their slaves every 7 years, and it was forbidden to enslave fellow Jews. The Christians adopted this practise, and for a long time the only acceptable slaves in Christendom were Muslim captives.
When Spain and Portugal found and conquered Atlantic empires, many things happened. Native Americans were unable to resist European viruses like smallpox, and died off in huge numbers. This led to importing Africans to do slave labor on the new sugar plantations and in the silver mines of Peru and Mexico, becuase Africans had a greater resistance to European viruses and were able to survive as slaves. African chieftains were highly involved in the slave trade, as they were able to swap slaves for guns, gunpowder, rum, glass and the other precious commodities the Portuguese, Spanish, French and English offered them. The slave trade was extremely profitable.
For some time the question of whether they were human or not was a big argument. At any rate, once they were converted to Christianity, they were no longer supposed to be slaves. But it was too convenient to ignore this by developing the racist theory that Africans weren't human.

Conditions: The intial journey from Africa to South America, the Carribean or North America took several weeks. Slaves were chained so closely together that they couldn't turn over, and consequently urinated and defecated all over themselves. In addition they were given just enough water and food to survive. Sometimes the slavers miscalculated how much food they would need, and as a result had to dump slaves at sea in order to feed the others. This happened on the Amistad (a great movie was made about this).
Once the slaves got to their destination, they were sold regardless of family ties (families were routinely broken up) or ethnic ties, so that in their new homes they found communicating with other slaves very difficult ( the Ibo and the Yoruba and the Africans from Benin all spoke different languages). They were beaten, branded, whipped, and starved into submission. If they ran away and were captured, they were whipped to the point of death, or tortured to death to make an example. On the sugar plantations, slaves wore an iron bit in their mouths so that they couldn't eat while working. They were deliberately starved, since new slaves were so cheap. Every female slave was a sex object, and might be raped dozens of times.
Slavery in the American south was an outrage to the spirit of the Revolution, and a terrible civil war was fought to end it. After it ended, the former slave owners and their political lackeys blamed the war on the slaves, and their racism poisoned the entire country. The country is still recovering from the legacy of this self-serving hatred.