The migration direction of African blacks

Migration direction of African blacks: 1, USA and Canada 2, Central and North America and Caribbean 3, South America 4, Western Europe 5, West Asia Information: African blacks were forced to emigrate to America.

After Europeans arrived in the New World, they began to plunder and colonize America on a large scale. In this process, due to the inhuman slaughter of Indians, they met with resistance from Indians, and as a result, the developing labor force was particularly lacking, especially the whites did not adapt to the local hot and humid climate. In order to grow cash crops such as sugarcane, tobacco, cotton, rice and indigo, a large number of African blacks are used. The evil slave trade began in the 1930s in 16. At first, it was mainly concentrated on the west coast of Africa, and later it expanded to a slave trade zone of more than 6,000 kilometers from Senegal to Angola. When the source of slaves in West Africa was insufficient, it expanded to East Africa. At first, it was a surprise attack on prisoners, and later, it was a bribe to induce local tribal chiefs to start a war, exchanging inferior goods for prisoners and then transporting them to the United States. European slave traders set out from ports such as London, Liverpool and Marseille, carrying goods by ship, transporting slaves "exchanged" in Africa to the West Indies, Brazil and North America for sale, and then transporting cotton, sugar cane or mineral products purchased there back to Europe. Slave traders in North America set out from New England, traded wood, dairy products and flour for West Indian liqueur, and then went to Africa to sell slaves. This is the so-called triangle trade. The British and Dutch monopolized the activity.

The slave trade did not stop gradually until the 1930s of 19, and lasted for three centuries, resulting in the loss of nearly 1 100 million people in Africa. According to a rough estimate, more than 40 million black people who were transported to the United States died on the way because of overcrowding, poor diet, epidemics and other reasons, while only1.4000 ~1.500 million people arrived in the United States. Tens of millions of people died in the process of anti-arrest.

In the United States, the first slaves arrived in Virginia in 16 19. To 1775. The number of blacks in North American colonies has reached 500,000. It is approximately equal to 1/6 of the total population of North America. 186 1 On the eve of the civil war, the total population of the southern 15 state was only120,000, and slaves accounted for 4 million. Although the United States later abolished slavery and granted citizenship to blacks, they were still discriminated against in political and social status, occupation and education. Today, there are 20 million blacks in the United States, accounting for about 10% of the American population, and they are the largest ethnic minority in the United States. Geographically, with the development of mechanization and the decrease of labor demand in south china agriculture, they turned to industrial areas in the northeast.

In the west Indies of the Caribbean; Because of the extensive use of slave labor, blacks occupy an important position in the population, such as Jamaica and Haiti, where blacks account for more than two thirds. On the contrary, the original indigenous Indians have completely disappeared.