Slavery

Europeans and Asians were interested in the slave trade. The Europeans

were accostomed to blacks doing their work. The Europeans developed a

rationalization for their deeds based on christainity. The Europeans, Spaniards

and Portuguese, established orderly trade relations with Africans. They were

also erecting forts and trading post to help carry out their business. The

Europeans also believed in the new concept of freedom, brought on by the

Commerical Revolution. When the muslims invaded Africa they contributed

greatly to the beginning

of slavery, for example by seizing women for their harems

and military and menial services. Muslims did not ulitize slavery for the product

of goods.

Africans inhabited the New World before Columbus arrived. Africans also

were considered the pioneers of the transatlantic west, according to the theory

of Professor Leo Wiener. As early as 1501, Spain permitted Africans to go to

Spanish lands in the New World.Explorers like Cortes, carried blacks to Mexico

and grew the first wheat corp in the New World. Alvardo took 200 blacks with

him to Quito. Estevanico was an outstanding explorer who opened the New

Mexico and Arizona for the Spaniards.

Slave trading allowed the Spaniards to import African slaves to the

New World. In 1512 Bishop Bartolomeo De Las Casa encouraged immigration.

Charles II issued licenses to several Flemish Traders to take slaves to Spanish

Colonies. England was the country that dominated the entire world. The war of

the Spanish Succession gave England the right to take slaves to Spanish

Colonies for thirty years. Slave trading was also an important part in England's

economy. Inorder to be successful in the slave trading business, slave traders

had to follow certain techniques and procedures. These procedures consist of

sailing into a port, loading up with slaves, and sailing away. When selling a

slave the price depended on the age and the condition of the slave. The price

also depended on the period of trading and the location of the post.

Africans were the first to use the tobacco plantation. The European market

became glutted with weeds, that the