Slavery: from the beginning
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Slavery: from the beginningExisted in most societiesprisoners of warcriminalsdebtorsNot hereditaryNot for a lifetimeoften married & became
part o/t community
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The Slave TradeAtlantic Slave
TradeAfrican Slave Trade“commerce”
(trade) in human beings.
CHATTEL
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Prince Henry of Portugal
Why did Prince Henry have the West coast of Africa explored in the late 1400s?
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“Commerce in Human Beings”
What led to the demand of slaves in the New World?
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The HEIGHT of the Slave Trade
1700s: @60,000 Africans were enslaved a year
huge PROFITS $$$$RACISM took rootslaves traded for gunsthe “Middle Passage”
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The Middle Passage
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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
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Ending the Slave TradeOlaudah Equiano Frederick Douglass
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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
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Back to Africa Movement1787: SIERRA
LEONE was founded by former slaves from England
1847: LIBERIA was founded by former slave from the USA
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Slave Castles
“The doorof no return”
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Names of Slave ShipsAmistad:
“friendship”AngelGrace of GodFreedomLiberty
SCHOONER
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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?