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Day 16 Africa / Atlantic Slave Trade

Day 16 Africa / Atlantic Slave Trade. Warm Up: Chant de Elegua Extra Credit: Movie: Amistad, Episode I Roots Homework:132-136. West Africa. Kingdom of Benin – craftsmen creating sophisticated bronze structures. Mali 1200-1450. Expanded trade to Atlantic

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Day 16 Africa / Atlantic Slave Trade

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  1. Day 16 Africa / Atlantic Slave Trade • Warm Up: Chant de Elegua • Extra Credit: Movie: Amistad, Episode I Roots • Homework:132-136

  2. West Africa • Kingdom of Benin – craftsmen creating sophisticated bronze structures

  3. Mali 1200-1450 • Expanded trade to Atlantic • Mansa Musa (King of Kings) wealthiest ruler of his day

  4. Trade • Songhai- African Trade included Ivory, Gold, and Salt • Trans Saharan trade with Muslims

  5. Causes of Atlantic Slave Trade • Slavery and indentured servitude in Africa • 1400’s European demand low w/ discovery demand explodes • Small Pox destroys local population • Inability to escape

  6. Trade • Grew into a massive enterprise • 40% in Brazil as compared to 4% in the Americas • African Merchants Cooperation • Triangular Trade • Manufactured Goods from Europe • Middle Passage (slaves) - Sugar, Rum, Cotton, Tobacco from the Americas

  7. Inhumane Treatment • Hold below Deck (20% die) • Plantations, Mines or servants • Auctions • Cultural Resistance

  8. Olaudah Equino “ I was soon put down under the decks, and there I received such a salutation in my nostrils as I never experienced in my life; so that, with the loathsome stench, and crying together, I became so sick and low that I was not able to eat…but soon, to my grief, two of the white men offered me eatables; and on my refusing to eat, one of them held me fast by the hands, and laid me across…the windlass, while the other flogged me severely”

  9. Impact • Resistance and Rebellion • Draining of Africa’s human assets • Economic growth of region

  10. African Influence in Caribe • Religion (Santeria, Voodoo) • Capueto (Brazil) • Words (fulano, mengana) • Influences on food and Music

  11. Summary Questions • What is the triangular trade? • What is the middle passage? • Why were Africans viewed as ideal laborers? • Name one product for each leg of the Triangular trade?

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