The Beginning of the Slave Trade

Under what circumstances slave trade began. This special movement began to spread agriculture after Bantu people moved to many parts of Africa. From the 15th century to the 19th century, Europeans regarded Africa as a labor force (slave) cultivating farms in the Western hemisphere. As mentioned in our texts, traditions and encounters, "In exchange for slavery, people in Africa are receiving products made in Europe ..." (p. 424). In addition, Africans have agricultural experience to make land profitable.

Slavery in the New World is not the beginning of slave trade. Slave trade was initiated by the Portuguese as a part of Portugal's commercial expansion in 1441 (Emery 1). In the next century, slave trade grew markedly. As early as 1518, slaves were shipped to the West Indies and 1,540 Africans were shipped to the New World every year. Captain Slave is often welcomed by a local slave merchant who allows the captain to observe slave dance. (Corundum 2)

Origin of Capoeira can be traced back to the site of Brazilian slave trade about 500 years ago. Through Brazilian slave trade over 488 years, Western and Central African tribes gathered and were mixed in senzalas (slave districts) and quilombos (slave nations of fugitives). From this African culture combination, there was a tradition, a ceremony, a fusion of rituals, food, dance, language, and religion. Eventually, a new Afro - Brazilian identity with a unique cultural tradition was born. With the advent of this new identity, capoeira development, this custom has been called art of liberation for years.

Since slave trade began in the 16th century, European slave merchants have been claiming to be Christians; with Protestant and Catholic pastors they have "human cargo". In France, Protestant cloth merchants of major ports (Bordeaux, Nantes, La Rochelle, Rouen) contributed to slave trade. The 19th century abolitionists condemned, but acknowledged that these people were victims of their prejudice. However, after the human rights revolution, the possibility of accepting collusion between Christianity and slave trade no longer exists, imagining by pre-God declaring freedom and equality of Africa before and before the evangelism of Africa and blacks and whites It is impossible to do. Therefore, the missionary movement of the 19th century was closely related to the campaign to support the abolition of slave trade and all slavery.