chapter 14 documents

Voices from the Slave Trade
The Atlantic slave trade was an enormous enterprise and enormously significant in modern world history. The journey to slavery talked about Olaudah Equiano who was born in what is now Igbo-speaking region of Nigeria around 1745, and was seized from his home at age eleven and was sold into the Atlantic slave trade at the high point of the infamous commerce. He experience as a slave in the Americas was really different. He leaned how to read and write, travel as a seaman and later was allowed to buy his freedom in 1766. The Business of the slave trade was a horror imagination for kings and merchants. It was business for both Europeans and Africans. The slave trade and the kingdom of kongo occurred to what is now Angola. This state had Portuguese traders in the 1480s that could strengthen their regime. The slave trade and the kingdom of Asante arose in the eighteenth century. This was a powerful state that invested in the slave trade.