[Get Solution] Slave Trade

Questions for Review and Reflection Once the Portuguese found a way to navigate down the west coast of Africa, was it inevitable that a slave trade would begin? To what extent was the slave trade forced upon West Africans? What were some of the dynamics of African complicity in it? What strategies and resources did enslaved Africans draw on to endure the traumas of capture, the Middle Passage across the Atlantic, and sale in New World European colonies? How would you characterize the first encounters between colonizing Spaniards and enslaved Africans taken to their colonies? What were some of the possibilities and limits within which African Americans negotiated the terms of their bondage?