Property or Not

Property or Not
The selling of African human beings began with Prince Henry, the Navigator of Portugal. With the rising stream of commerce, the trade in slaves began to rise. It was later taken over by the Spaniards to supply labor in the new world(Thomas). Africans who were taken in war, or had been sold by their own tribes to another, were considered slaves because of dept or adultery. After months, or in some cases years of slavery in another tribe, they were taken down to the shores and sold to the slave traders. In the fifteenth century, the act of war among tribes were more of a ruse than force, because the tribes knew if they were to lose, they were going to be slaves, and therefore were not as forceful as other captives (Thomas).
When the ship took on all that it could carry, it set sail. The slaves were chained two by two in positions, such as laying head to toe or squatting in a four foot area in the hole of a ship numbering in the hundreds. They were placed in iro...