How Did The African Slave Trade Affect The Americas Politically And Socially

Economic, social and political impact of the African-European slave trade?

The winners: The Europeans and the American farmers
The losers: The Africans, who became slaved.

Economic impact: cheap workers in the farms and factories in overseas districts, but killing the local African economy.
Social: underpopulation in Africa, growing split up between black and white in America (caused civil war in 19th century)
Political: Civil War in USA in 19th century, Martin Luther King, the rise of Obama,...

How did the Atlantic Slave Trade affect Africa politically?

The Atlantic Slave Trade destroyed these kingdoms.
There were over 173 city-states and kingdoms in the African regions affected by the slave trade between 1502 and 1853. By 1953 of those 173, no fewer than 68 could be deemed nation states with political and military infrastructures that enabled them to dominate their neighbors.

The Atlantic Slave Trade made major conflicts between kingdoms this was they way in which these kingdoms supplied Europeans slaves who were in fact prisoners of war and gradually both sides would lose alot of men this occurred throughout those fighting kingdoms. Kingdoms and states collapsed even ones not involved in the trade suffered from one which was involved invading and waging war with them. In the end the demographics were effected young people men in general were in low in number this would be one of the greatest advantages to Europeans colonizing Africa. African kingdoms and states simply became devastated and the ones which weren't were very little and couldn't handle European influence.
The major cause is the fact that Europeans didnt just trade with one but many meaning they created the scenario of many kingdoms waging war for centuries.

Even after decolonization there were still no native strong politic groups to take over instead rebels this can all be down to the slave trade ruined politics from progressing in any way instead Europeans would control for their own reasons and cutt and run leaving the nations with a bad history of politics which were already gone to take over. African politics went backwards and vanished during the trans Atlantic slave trade to now what we see in Africa today corrupt governments and wide spread problems.

List 2 ways the Atlantic slave trade affected Africa.....?

One way would be population growth. Here are the population statistics from 1750 to 1850 with the average yearly population growth.
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Africa 106 to 111 million or - 0.0046% per year
Europe 163 to 276 million - 0.53% per year
Northern America 2 to 26 million - 2.60% per year
LA & Carribean 16 to 38 million - 0.87% per year
Asia 502 to 809 million - 0.48% per year
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See how low the population growth rate of Africa was compared to the rest of the world? And most of that growth rate in Africa occurred at the end of the 19th century when the Atlantic slave trade stopped.
The rest of the world was learning hygiene and medicine and eventually moving into an industrial revolution. Lifespans were being extended. Africans were dying young and exporting millions of it's people as slaves. People died in the wars to collect slaves, they died in the factories waiting for the slave ships, they died in the passage across the ocean, and they died in the "breaking in" camps when they arrived in the new world.
- The slave trade began before 1750 but the peak years were after 1750.
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The second way the slave trade affected Africa was that during this period no great empires or states were developed in Africa. Europe was coalescing into Italy, Germany, and the United Kingdom, the Austrian Hungarian empire, and the countries of the Americas were declaring their independence.
To a great extent the rest of the Atlantic nations were profiting from the labor of Africa and building the modern world. When the Atlantic Slave trade ended, the colonial occupation of Africa began.
"The Scramble for Africa" was the proliferation of conflicting European claims to African territory between the 1880s and World War I in 1914. When this period ended in the 1960's Africa began what may be it's greatest tragedy in the long run. The huge population explosion that may not end until the end of the 21st century.

“triangle trade” and its impact of the political, social, and cultural development of America.?

The triangle trade introduced slavery to the Caribbean. The African influence permeates every area of the lives of the present day populations on these islands. Their cuisine, language, religion, music, and dances have become a part of the culture. The class differences have been brought about by the intermarriage with Europeans and natives.

The roughly 200,000 Africans brought to Mexico were for the most part absorbed by the mestizo populations of mixed European and Amerindian descent. The state of Guerrero once had a large population of African slaves. Other Mexican states inhabited by people with some African ancestry, along with other ancestries, include Oaxaca, Veracruz, and Yucatán.

The African slave population quickly began to outnumber the Europeans and Native Americans. The proportion of slaves ranged from about one third in Cuba, to more than ninety percent in many of the islands. In the early nineteenth century, fewer than 5 percent of the total population of Jamaica, Grenada, Nevis, St. Vincent, and Tobago was white, fewer than 10 percent of the population of Anguilla, Montserrat, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, and the Virgin Islands. Only in the Bahamas, Barbados, and Trinidad was more than 10 percent of the total population white. By sharp contrast, Trinidad was the only colony in the British Caribbean to have fewer than 80 percent of its population enslaved. Sugar and slavery gave to the region a predominantly African population.
http://countrystudies.us/caribbean-islan... (more on this link)

During the African slave trade that began in the early 1600's, foods from West Africa came to the Caribbean Islands, including okra, pigeon peas, plantains, callaloo, taro, breadfruit and ackee.

Antigua and Barbuda have an African influence that can be seen in many aspects of the islands daily living. Antiguan Creole includes many words and sayings that trace their origin direct from Africa. You can feel the African influence in the islands’ music, with musical genres like Reggae and Calypso.

African religions, like Voodoo, and syncretistic religions found a home in the Caribbean.

What are some social effects of slavery?

Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Healing: This too shall Pass

As a direct result of the American Civil War, the United States witnessed the 13th, 14th and 15th U.S. Constitutional Amendments.


When the American Civil War ended, leaders turned to the question of how to reconstruct the nation. One important issue was the right to vote. Hotly debated were voting rights for black American men and former Confederate men.

In the latter half of the 1860s, Congress passed a series of acts designed to address the question of rights, as well as how the Southern states would be governed. These acts included the act creating the Freedmen's Bureau, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and several Reconstruction Acts. The Reconstruction Acts established military rule over Southern states until new governments could be formed. They also limited some former Confederate officials' and military officers' rights to vote and to run for public office. (However, the latter provisions were only temporary and soon rescinded for almost all of those affected by them.) Meanwhile, the Reconstruction acts gave former male slaves the right to vote and hold public office.

Congress also passed two amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The Fourteenth Amendment made African-Americans citizens and protected citizens from discriminatory state laws. Southern states were required to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment before being readmitted to the union. The Fifteenth Amendment guaranteed African American men the right to vote.