African Slave Trade

African Slave Trade GPS: SS7H1: The student will analyze continuity and change in Africa leading to the 21st century. Element A: Explain how the European partitioning across Africa contributed to conflict, civil war, and artificial political boundaries.

Essential Question: • What was the impact of the slave trade on Africa and Europe?

Slave Trade • Twenty million Africans were transported to the Americas during more than 300 years of the transatlantic trade.

Slave Trade • Played an important role in European economic development and its transition to capitalism.

Human Capital • Investing in humans. • Ex: Education, Training, Service, etc.

Slave Trade • On the continent of Africa, the western and central areas were dramatically impacted by a drain of human capital.

Your Turn….Advantages and Disadvantages of the Slave Trade (Individually).

African Slave Trade 15th - 19th Centuries: Triangular Trade

3 Member Group Work • Directions: Read three narratives • 1 - From a Christian African King • 2 - By a French Slave Trader • 3 - An African who was enslaved and sent to America when he was only 11 years old.

African Disadvantages • Slavery tore apart communities and families.

African Disadvantages • Slavery depopulated the labor base.

African Disadvantages • Slavery hindered African economic development.

African Disadvantages • Enslaved Africans were transported in brutal conditions, shackled together with chains, and forced to lie in rat infested filth. Many died covered in vomit and human waste.

African Disadvantages • Enslaved Africans were treated as commodities.

African Disadvantages • Africans received only trinkets and guns as part of the triangular trade. Mini fact: Trinkets are simply junk.

African Disadvantages • Some Africans began to desire merchandise and would even sell other Africans into slavery in order to get what they wanted.

African Disadvantages • The enslaved Africans were beaten, branded with irons, and given very little food or clothes.

European Disadvantages • Slavery was morally repugnant (offensive, disgusting).

European Disadvantages • Slavery compromised efforts of Christian missionaries.

Your Turn • 1. What were some of the reasons Europeans sought to enslave Africans?

2. What were some of the reasons why Africans sold fellow Africans into slavery?

3. How were enslaved Africans treated by the traders and their masters?

4. How long did the slave trade last?

5. Why did the European countries gradually abolish the slave trade and, eventually, slavery altogether?

6. What were the overall effects of slavery on the development of Africa? Europe?

Conclusion • Essential QUESTION: What was the impact of the slave trade on Africa and Europe?

African Slave Trade