Chapter 14 part 2

In the second half of chapter 14 we learned a lot about the Atlantic Slave trade. A lot of Africans were taken from there home land and forced into work and labor. This really was something that I thought was crazy. All of the struggles that the Africans had to go through was all because of the Europeans needing someone to do all of their work for them. The Europeans came into Africa and literally took people and there relatives from there homes and put them through unremarkable experiences. Some of these horrific things that they had to endure were being put in unhealthy living environments on the journey back to the Americas. A lot of the time many of the Africans died on the way due to the terrible treatment they were given. Some of the Africans also went to the extent of committing suicide because they thought that being dead was better then living and being treated so cruelly in their terrible conditions of captivity. Another thing that really blew me away while reading this part of the chapter was that a few of the "African Elites" would actually trade slaves in return for gunpowder, alcohol, and tobacco with the Europeans. Some of the information that I learned from the documents was that the kingdom of Asante was heavily invested in the slave trade and that is where most of its wealth come from. They would use some of there slaves in the gold mines and on some of the plantations which were actually within Asante itself. Another thing that I learned from this was that a conversation between Osei Bonsu and a British diplomat in 1820 was a highlight towards the role of the slave trade in Asante in the thinking of its monarch. Lastly I learned that Osei Bonsu, the ruler was dismayed in the beginning of the 19th century when the British stopped buying slaves due to the expanding abolitionist movement.

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