By Kennell Jackson
Using a question-and-answer structure and organized chronologically by means of period, this readable, vigorous learn examines hundred key features of African-American background and tradition, from slavery to the humanities, sciences, civil rights flow, and extra. travel.
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Portuguese traders became friends with some rulers, giving them gifts. Diplomatic contacts were established. The language Crioulo, a blend of Portuguese and various West African languages, sprang up. The coming together of these two groups marks a momentous turning point, and you might think that historians would know the exact day, hour, and circumstances under which these transactions took place. Yet we can only assert that the alliance was formed sometime from the 1440s to the 1490s. Later, a special class of middlemen helped the Portuguese penetrate the area.
It raises another big, unresolvable question: Who was to blame for the trade? Recently, Black critic Stanley Crouch took a provocative swing at this question. According to him, Africans who sold slaves did not worry over the enormity of what they were doing. ” Africans betrayed the region’s citizens for profits. For Crouch, this is not a scandalous admission, just a historical fact that needs to be faced. Today, it is widely recognized that many groups and individuals in western Africa collaborated with the Europeans in the Atlantic slave trade.
Black American ex-slaves (and white ex-slaveholders) were still living into the 1960s. What was the basic purpose of the African slave trade to the Americas? Planting and harvesting crops; working in mines; building farm homes, stables, granaries; doing household jobs; constructing canals and bridges—these were some of the jobs performed by Africans in the Americas. African slaves, first and foremost, were laborers. The basic purpose of the trade was to capture people by force in West Africa and to transport them across the Atlantic Ocean to the new European settlements.