Slavery: from the beginningExisted in most societiesprisoners of warcriminalsdebtorsNot hereditaryNot for a lifetimeoften married & became

part o/t community

The Slave TradeAtlantic Slave

TradeAfrican Slave Trade“commerce”

(trade) in human beings.

CHATTEL

Prince Henry of Portugal

Why did Prince Henry have the West coast of Africa explored in the late 1400s?

1.

2.

“Commerce in Human Beings”

What led to the demand of slaves in the New World?

The HEIGHT of the Slave Trade

1700s: @60,000 Africans were enslaved a year

huge PROFITS $$$$RACISM took rootslaves traded for gunsthe “Middle Passage”

The Middle Passage

Ending the Slave Trade1700s: the Abolitionist MovementThe Quaker’s were leading AbolitionistsOlaudah Equiano and Frederick Douglass were

both freed slaves who were instrumental in exposing the evils of the slave trade

1807: British outlaw the Slave Trade1834: British outlaw Slavery itself1865: American Civil War ended slavery in the

USA

Ending the Slave TradeOlaudah Equiano Frederick Douglass

Effects of the Slave TradeAfrican Diaspora: 10-15 million Africans

were enslaved.20-30 million Africans were killed. Why?Whole villages were wiped out:

mass starvation murdered or enslaved genocide

Exchanging slaves for guns allowed for the rise of some powerful African states

Back to Africa Movement1787: SIERRA

LEONE was founded by former slaves from England

1847: LIBERIA was founded by former slave from the USA

Slave Castles

“The doorof no return”

Names of Slave ShipsAmistad:

“friendship”AngelGrace of GodFreedomLiberty

SCHOONER

Using the graphs on pg. 96, answer the following:What percentage of slaves were brought to

the USA?Where were the majority of slaves taken to?Why were so many slaves brought to the

Caribbean?Btwn what years was the Slave Trade at its

height?Why such a drop after this period?