Langues & Cultures
Volume 5, Numéro 2, Pages 113-122
2024-12-10
The Trans-atlantic Slave Trade: An Unrepaired Crime Against Humanity
Authors : Mostefaoui Aziz .
Abstract
Abstract Fourteenth-century Europe was marked by the Renaissance, the large movement of European awakening that started in Italy and encompassed scientific, political, economic, social, and cultural fields. One of the results of this movement was an unprecedented wave of explorations of the lands outside Europe, pioneered by the Portuguese in the fifteenth century. These explorations allowed Portugal to create trading posts and build castles along the West African coasts and establish sugarcane plantations on the Atlantic islands which relied on African slave labor. However, the discovery of the Americas in 1492 dramatically increased the demand for African slaves. This paper traces back the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the atrocities committed against African slaves, and it attempts to highlight the wrongs done to them for centuries in the name of economic progress dictated by the capitalist system.
Keywords
slave trade ; West Africa ; New World ; Middle Passage ; Crime against humanity
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