Slave Trade: The African Connection 1788

The topic I decided to do my Primary Source Portfolio on is the Slave Trade: The African Connection 1788. The Slave trade was between America and Africa the main crops that were around then and needed to be moved were cotton, sugar cane, and tobacco. This Slave trade was between America, Africa and the Europeans but like stated earlier mostly between America and Africa. During 1788 he slave trade reached the all-time high of the 18th century, an estimated of 80,000 slaves crossed the Atlantic over to slavery 40% Caribbean, 30% Brazil, 17% on Spanish America and only 6% in America. Most slaves during this time were captured as a prize or most common was they were kidnapped, most slaves were kidnapped of the coast. Within this document were …show more content…
I have presented two maps in my portfolio map one shows Bonny where most of the slave trade took place in Africa; map two shows the different routes and locations of the slave trade. Additionally, the chart I display shows the carrier ships of where the ships were headed to along with the destination ships of how many slaves were actually sold. In addition I have two photos, photo one is of head chain slaves would have to wear if they were disruptive and they would be in these chains for …show more content…
Picture two is of the Slave Trade ship and it shows how all the slaves were stowed away and how packed those ships really were. The primary course document that I related to this project was “ The interesting Narrative od the life of Olaudah Equalano” I choose this narrative because it related to the topic that I picked in the narrative Olaudah was saying how he was kidnapped and sold into slavery he also talked about the living conditions on the boat which were the same in my article. For example, he went out with his sister and was kidnapped and sold into slavery just like the man and his son in the article “A man and his son, according to their own information, were seized by professed kidnappers, while they were planting yams, and sold for slaves” (Slave Trade: the African Connection) and in the Narrative Olaudah states “ One day, when all our people were gone out to their works as usual, and only I and my sister were left at the house two men got over our wall and seized us both ( The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano 54). These two quotes relate because it shows how mostly all slaves went through the same hardships. On the same hand, I also choose this Narrative because Olaudah was trades from Africa to America just like in the