Atlantic Slave trade, Industrial Rev.

WRITE a blog post in which you explain everything you know, might know, and don't know about the Atlantic slave trade and the Industrial Revolution in Europe. If you don't know anything about either – or aren't confident in what you may know – explain what questions you have about trade and industrialization and how they fit with the scientific, social, and political revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries.

The Atlantic slave trade was also called the transatlantic slave trade. People traded African people to America. The enslaved people were forced to work on sugar, cocoa, cotton plantations, and mines. They basically had to complete the tasks that the rich people were to lazy to accomplish. The enslaved people were obtained coastal trading with Africans through European slave traders through kidnapping and raids through their homes. Around 10-12 million Africans arrived in the “New World”. This slave trading affected the social aspect of countries because they started to become lazy and relied on the slaves to do everything for them. How does it affect the scientific and political sections of the countries? I see that it could have stirred up controversies in the countries because some people did not agree with owning slaves. They basically thought of it as unreasonable.

The Industrial Revolution was from the 18th century to the 19th century. There were major changes in agriculture, mining, manufacturing, and transportation. People started to use machine-based manufacturing instead of animals because it was more reliable and efficient. They also improved roads, railways, and many other types of machinery. The revolution eventually affected the whole world because Europe and most of North America was industrializing. During the revolutions, there was technological and economic progress with steam powered ships and other creations. There was large growth in the economy, and it positively affected the scientific aspect of the whole world. People were much farther advanced with technology for warfare, transportation, and basic work in daily life. But I don’t see how this affects the countries politically because it mostly changes the science advancement.