Slavery already existed in the fifteenth century in west Africa. Kings and emperors owned slaves, and so did many families. Usually the slaves, and their children, were taken in to the owners family as time passed.

New slavery developed because the Portuguese needed something cheaper and longer lasting than indentured slaves. Indentured slaves were usually low status people in debt or prisoners of war. They also needed to replace the Indian slaves because they kept dieing from malnutrition and disease. New slavery started when the Portuguese started traveling to Africa. They saw the Africans already using slavery. They decided to catch slaves from some tribes and trade them to others for gold and silver. This became very profiting for them.

The Portuguese and Spanish created large slave labor plantations when they immigrated to America. These plantations produced sugar for the European market. The Europeans began shipping Africans over to work on these plantations. New slavery r

eplaced tradition slavery. This is because the black slaves were not looked at like humans. Their black skin and different religion dehumanized them and made them in the Europeans eyes just a form of property. Because they saw them as property they didn’t care how hard they worked them, and only fed them enough to stay alive and working. The slave owners became very rich and slavery spread fast among the nation.

Africans fought to the death and committed suicide to escape entrapment, and shipment. African Americans resisted likewise but they also resisted with arson, theft, escape, and violence. I found a famous example of this resistance on pg. 96 of (Enduring 4th edition). African Americans resisting enslavement started a rebellion called the “Stono Rebellion”. Twenty African slaves robbed a shop at the Stono river bride. They got away with guns and ammunition. Eighty other slaves joined them. They headed to Spanish Florida where they planned on joining a popular refuge for escaped slaves. On their way they burned seven plantations and killed twenty whites. Within a day militia surrounded the slaves by a riverbank, and killed them. The militia spiked a head of each slave on every milepost from that riverbank to Charlestown.

Although slavery already existed before the fifteenth and sixteenth century, during these two centuries is when it became international and most lucrative for slave owners. First with just trading slaves for silver and gold. Then shipping slaves o

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