Review: The African Atlantic: West African Literatures and Slavery Studies

The work of comment: The history of rebellion: amistad slave rebellion and the culture of black trans nationalism of the 20th century: Matthew J. Christensen, Laura T. Murphy slave trade of metaphor in West African literature

But in today's western world, the historic main example of slavery people think is black slave trade between the 16th and 19th centuries. A long-lasting image is a slave ship that takes Africans to the Atlantic under very inhuman circumstances. And a journey that too many people can not survive. How did the contract evolve? What role does the UK play in that? What ended it? When the Portuguese began to transport slaves from West Africa to Europe, the Atlantic African slave trade started in 1444. In the next hundred years, the main markets for these slaves were the Atlantic Islands owned by Europe, Portugal and Spain. However, the discovery of the Americas in 1492 led to the urgent need for the establishment of new colonies and inexpensive labor, and since the mid-16th century, European ships have taken African slaves to Brazil, the Caribbean, Carried to North America, steadily increased.

In the 15th century, the Portuguese began exploring the coast of Africa. They began transporting African slaves to Portugal and Spain. In the 16th century, Europeans began to transport African slaves across the Atlantic Ocean. In Africa slavery is not new. For centuries, Africans sold other Africans as slaves to Arabs. However, slave trade beyond the Atlantic continues to grow until becoming huge. Most African slaves are sent to Brazil or the West Indies. Some were sent to British colonies in North America. (The first slave arrived there in 1619)

Over 300 years, Africans have been shipped to Latin America and the Caribbean as slave laborers. In this course I will explore the history of slavery in this area, from the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade to the abolition of slavery in Brazil in 1888. In each lesson, students review important documents such as autobiography, slavery, farm journals. , Visual images, anti-slavery and historians