PPT-Chapter 21 – Africa and the Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Forced removal of Africans African culture became one of the important strands in the development of American civilizations Islam consolidated its position in subSaharan and east Africa Most of Africa remain independent states. The Trans-Atlantic. Slave Trade. Trans-Atlantic Slave Destinations. The Slave Trade. Existed in Africa before the coming of the Europeans.. Portuguese replaced European slaves with Africans.. Sugar cane & sugar plantations.. 1500-1850. The Atlantic slave trade involved the largest intercontinental migration of people in world history prior to the 20th century. Ask yourself:. What is slavery? Why did/does it happen? . When it all started… . Chapter 25. Overview: African Politics and Society. Review: Bantus – migrations, stateless societies -> chiefdoms and regional kingdoms -> Trans-Saharan trade -> large kingdoms, empires, and city-states. (Continued). 03/10/13. Islamic Slave Trade? A misnomer?. If transatlantic trade has not been called “Christian slave trade”, then it would be more appropriate to use . Arab/. P. ersian slave trade . Barbara Anderson. African Studies Center, UNC-Chapel Hill. November 2013. b_anderson@unc.edu. . . http://africa.unc.edu/. . How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade begin?. Why did Europeans choose Africans?. Conditions of Trade & Slaves. You will be assigned a “specific” leg of the Triangular Trade. Read about your assigned leg of the Triangular Trade taking note on items traded, and write a brief explanation of how the people/country benefitted from those items.. Margin Review Questions. What drove European involvement in the world of Asian commerce?. Desire . for tropical spices, Chinese silk, Indian cottons, rhubarb, emeralds, rubies, and . sapphires. Recovery . Study Guide Parts 1-3 and Vocabulary. Part 1 Questions With Answers . The . first Africans to come to the New World came and were treated as . . Indentured . servants. Why . did Maryland and Virginia have a need for slaves? . Department of History & Philosophy. Kennesaw State University. Opening remarks. I. Myth and Reality. Africa: A continent. Africa is a continent. the . second largest continent in the world. How many countries?. In the Beginning. Portugal’s Prince Henry was looking for a sea route around Africa to India. West African Kingdoms had an abundance or gold and other resources. Small trading stations on Africa’s western coast. Pre-Existing Slave Trade. Trans-Saharan trade routes (Red Sea and East African) had been trading slaves for centuries throughout the Middle East and Northern Africa. Mostly women: traded as concubines for harems; domestic servants. Unit 5: The Economy of Resources. What do you think? . What is . Slavery?. Slavery is when a person owns or has complete control of another person or people.. The . African Slave . Trade was . a. mass involuntary migration . “I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one.”. Lesson 5. History of African Slavery. Slavery has existed since antiquity. It became common in Africa after the Bantu migrations spread agriculture to all parts of the continent. History of African Slavery.