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There has been much debate about the nature of slavery in Africaprior to the Atlantic Slave TradeMost agree that African slavery was not "chattel slavery"- slaves were not seen as only
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3. In the 400 years (1450-1850) of the slave trade, about 21 million Africans were enslaved. Up to 2 million (or almost 20 percent) died on the Atlantic crossings, which lasted from 1 to 9 months on white slave trader ships. Probably as many slaves (at least 7 million) died on the way to the slave ports when they were captured by African elites. Particularly in the 17th and 18th centuries, slave owners made fabulous profits, as much as 135 percent.
5. Trans-Atlantic Slavery Different from Previous Forms of slavery Were forced to leave the land that they knew and travel thousands of miles across the Atlantic via the cruel “Middle Passage”
Went to a new land with a new culture and a new language
Were seen as being inferior – were property, like a horse
7. Slave-gun Cycle European merchants relied on African rulers to provide slaves
In return, African rulers would get guns and manufactured goods
African rulers would use guns to take more slaves and conquer more land
8. Kongo Empire
9. Gorée Island, Dakar, Senegal
