Beginning about , millions of Black Africans were taken from their homes and sold into slavery in the New World. European colonial powers, working with African rulers, shipped their human cargo across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations in their American colonies. As many as 10 million people endured the forced journey, and many more died in transport. After nearly four centuries, humanitarian efforts finally brought an end to the Atlantic slave trade in the second half of the s. Slavery was practiced in Africa long before the arrival of Europeans on the continent. The practice was widespread both in the Islamic societies of North Africa and in the Black African states south of the Sahara.
Lloyd's seeks archivist to investigate slave trade links
Discuss the historical trend of slavery, the increasing demand for slave labor in the New World, and the various groups that resisted slavery. Slavery formed a cornerstone of the British Empire in the 18th century. Every colony had slaves, from the southern rice plantations in Charles Town, South Carolina, to the northern wharves of Boston. Slavery was more than a labor system; it also influenced every aspect of colonial thought and culture. The uneven relationship it engendered gave white colonists an exaggerated sense of their own status. English liberty gained greater meaning and coherence for whites when they contrasted their status to that of the unfree class of black slaves in British America. African slavery provided whites in the colonies with a shared racial bond and identity.
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade began around the mid-fifteenth century when Portuguese interests in Africa moved away from the fabled deposits of gold to a much more readily available commodity—enslaved people. By the seventeenth century, the trade was in full swing, reaching a peak towards the end of the eighteenth century. Expanding European empires in the New World lacked one major resource—a workforce. In most cases, the Indigenous peoples had proved unreliable most of them were dying from diseases brought over from Europe , and Europeans were unsuited to the climate and suffered under tropical diseases.
The role played by Scots in the slave trade and in its abolition has only recently been recognised. We hold both printed and manuscript resources recording Scotland's links with slavery. These include:.
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