Transatlantic Slave Trade and Its Effects On African Societies

Seminar paper from the year 2022 in the subject Sociology - Individual, Groups, Society, grade: 4.00, , course: Liberia Society, language: English, abstract: While there is no shortage of scholarship regarding the transatlantic slave trade and the cataclysmic effects it has had on the African diaspora, however, not much is known about the direct dichotomy between the transatlantic slave trade and the first independent republic on the continent of Africa. This paper delves into the historicity of slavery, recounting how slavery evolve over 10,000-years to become the brutal institution it morphed into by the time of its abolition in the 19th century. It uncovers how the transatlantic slave trade decimated African societies permanently and how it led to the first independent republic on the continent of Africa.