PPT-The African Slave trade #5 World History

In the Beginning Portugals 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 Africas western coast. Credit given to: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston . Publishing for portions of this presentation. Below decks on an illegal slave ship seized by a British antislavery patrol in 1846.. Reading Focus. Where did the Atlantic slave trade originate?. What is . Slavery. ?. the . state of being owned by another person. Slaves. . were. . viewed. as a . labor. . supply. . where. . land was . prime. for . agriculture. (. agrarian. ) . Slaves. . 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… . Credit given to: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston . Publishing for portions of this presentation. Reading Focus. Where did the Atlantic slave trade originate?. How did slavery evolve in the American colonies?. (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?. Definition. “The term Columbian Exchange refers to the transfer of peoples, animals, plants, and diseases between the New and Old Worlds. The European invasion and settlement of the Western Hemisphere opened a long era of biological and technological transfers that altered American environments.” (Bulliet, p. 478). 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). Forced removal of Africans. African culture became one of the important strands in the development of American civilizations.. Islam consolidated its position in sub-Saharan and east Africa. Most of Africa remain independent states. 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. 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.”. 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 .