PPT-Lesson 3: The African Slave Trade

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 . 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?. Food Fight (3, 5, 6). Sit in Country Group. 3.3 Notes – African Slave Trade. Crash Course Video. RFOTD. Stephen Spielberg specifically requested that the spaceship in E.T. look like Dr. Seuss designed it.. 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. LO – TSWBAT explain the reasons for the development of the transatlantic slave trade and the spread of slavery in North America. . DOL - Given a population graph for the Chesapeake, TLW write a paragraph explaining two reasons for the development of the transatlantic slave trade and one reason for the growth of slavery in the late 17. The Beginning. Factories:. Established trading forts allowing trade from the interior. Much is established with the consent of the African people.. El Mina. Missionary efforts. Europeans saw the Africans as pagan savages (just like the saw everyone else). Section 1. First European Contacts. Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal sowed the seeds of tremendous change for Africa in the early to . mid-1400s. H. e . and his men cautiously explored farther and farther south along Africa’s west 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. AP World History Notes: Chapter 15. The Atlantic Slave Trade. Lasted from about 1500 to 1866. About 12.5 million Africans taken from their societies. About 10.7 million made it to the Americas. About 1.8 million (14.4%) died during the transatlantic crossing. Slave Trade. The idea of making someone less wealthy or less fortunate a bound servant is not new, but the degree to which the institution of slavery chained Africans was incomparable in world history. Lasted from about 1500 to 1866. About 12.5 million Africans taken from their societies. About 10.7 million made it to the Americas. About 1.8 million (14.4%) died during the transatlantic crossing. Millions more died in the process of capture and transport to the African coast . LO – TSWBAT explain the reasons for the development of the transatlantic slave trade and the spread of slavery in North America. . DOL - Given a population graph for the Chesapeake, TLW write a paragraph explaining two reasons for the development of the transatlantic slave trade and one reason for the growth of slavery in the late 17. The early African ompanies developed English trade and trade routes in the 16th and 17th centuries but it was not until the opening up of Africaandtheslave trade to all English merchantsin 1698that Br