The Atlantic was the inaugural ocean in global history to be frequently traversed, and its bordering regions developed a shared history. Several ties, relationships, and linkages gradually pushed the areas surrounding the Atlantic, that enormous inland sea, closer together throughout time. Individuals, commodities, and technologies moved between the pan-Atlantic continents in ever-expanding and-deepening currents. Enslavement was fundamental to the emergence of this Atlantic structure (Josipović and Marko 180). It was the linchpin of a broad Atlantic workforce that operated as a single entity despite being rigid and unproductive. The connections between African kingdoms, the Atlantic slave trade, and the new world slavery are shown below.
The business operations of the colonies in North America were primarily driven by enslavement and agriculture. The triangular commerce facilitated their rise between Europe, Africa, and the Americas, which enabled the importation of inexpensive goods built using slave workforce on New World fields into Europe. The increased labor force in Europe and America due to the Atlantic trade led to the emergence of modern world slavery. To guarantee their commercial effectiveness, American slaveholders manipulated legislative, economic, and conceptual frameworks to restrict the movement and freedom opportunities of an increasing number of African slaves and their descendants (Kelley 304). They justified this tyranny progressively with fallacious justifications of white superiority, black inferiority, and inherent racial classifications, therefore institutionalizing racism throughout America.
In addition, modern world slavery laws facilitated the end of the Atlantic slave trade. The Central and South American territories had a better-evolved slavery system, which comprised large-scale production plants and substantial slave trade. This region was the location of the first enslaved Africans to arrive in the Americas. In reality, the start of the Atlantic trade saw the greatest amount of slave trafficking between Africa and Central America. As a result of the slow evolution of servitude, its manifestations varied according to the conditions under which the populations were founded, their proprietors, and the laws implemented by the colonists (Kelley 304). The center portion of North America was made up of British colonies, each of which had a unique stance on slavery since it enforced its restrictions on slave labor. Therefore, anti-slavery labor regulations in the northern British colonies contributed to the reduction of modern-day slavery by turning Africans free and giving them equal treatment with the British.
Works Cited
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Kelley, Sean M. “New World Slave Traders and the Problem of Trade Goods: Brazil, Barbados, Cuba and North America in Comparative Perspective.” The English Historical Review, vol. 134, no. 567, 2019, pp. 302-333.