Slavery.
Slavery in Africa was over 3,500 years ago!! Buying and selling slaves was an everyday thing that occured. In Africa, as many other places around the world, early slavery more than likely resulted from warring groups taking captives. The majority of these captives were little to no use because they were so close to home, they eased escape. To increase production families had to invest in more labor to increase their share of any land. As a result they invested in slaves. Slaves Roles: Women slaves carried economic functions, like trading cotton spinning, and dyeing, as well as common chores like preparing food, washing clothes, and cleaning. The more powerful African males kept women slaves as wives, in many societies women were just symbols of the males wealth. Newer slaves were given more dangerous jobs such as mining. slaves were considered an ideal person to be close to the man with the most power. The ending of the slave trade and slavery in Africa had ranging effects on the whole continent. Many societies had participated in an economy based on slave labor and trading of slaves, these people had a difficult time finding new ways to order any type of agriculture production and manage gaining of wealth. As for colonial governments in Africa disapproved of slavery stilled needed them for such work. As a result many decendants of slaves were affected by this stigma for generation AFTER slavery was abolished.
I chose to talk about slavery because it interests me a lot. Knowing what I do from class I tried to research other facts that we hadn't learned about. The amount of slave trade and the way some of these INNOCENT people were treated makes me sick. I couldn't ever imagine the things that they went through. "It takes more than a horrifying transalantic voyage chained in the filthy hold of slave ship to erase someone's culture" (p. 1 Angelou). I found this website with tons of information and amazing quotes from people. I think this site is worth the read!! Click the link below and read for yourself!
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