Africa and the Slave Trade

1. Africa and the Slave Trade

2. EQ • What impact did the Atlantic Slave Trade have on Africa?

3. Key Vocabulary • Middle Passage: crossing from freedom in Africa to enslavement in North and South America • Journey across the Atlantic Ocean for captured Africans • Racism: belief that one race is superior to another

4. Key Vocabulary-continued • Triangle Slave Trade/Transatlantic Slave Trade: Cycle of trading among Europe, Africa, and the Americas to achieve wealth and power

5. Impact of Enslaved Females on Village Life in East Africa • Marriage patterns changed • Most of captives Muslim traders bought were women • Fewer women available to start families

6. Origination of Slavery • Slaves were taken by the victors after winning battles and wars

7. Slave Trade starts Wars in Africa • Neighboring tribes fought over the goods and profits offered by slave traders • Goods from Europeans included guns and cotton cloth

8. European Involvement in Slave Trade • Portugal was first European country to become involved in Atlantic Slave Trade. • Looking for route to Asia and stopped along Africa’s west coast • Interested in gold, but as trade developed, they decided to buy and sell slaves

9. Explosion of Atlantic Slave Trade • Expansion of agriculture in Americas produced a demand for human labor • Native Americans were first choice of forced labor for Europeans • Many died from diseases brought by Europeans

10. Atlantic Slave Trade • Cotton, cloth, rum, firearms shipped to Africa from Europe • Slaves shipped to Americas from Africa • Cotton, sugar, molasses, tobacco shipped to Europe from Americas

11. Essential Answer • Families were torn apart • Villages lost their strongest and brightest young people • Raids interrupted food production • Conflict among wealthy Africans who prospered from slave trade and those who did not • Idea of racism spread