Drill: Define Slavery. Do you think Slavery exists today? HW:

1. Drill: Define Slavery. Do you think Slavery exists today? • HW: • Obj: Describe the impact of the Atlantic Slave trade on the people of Africa and the international community.

2. Slavery • One person being forced to work for another. • http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/slavery/zoom.weml

3. "They seize numbers of our free or freed black subjects, and even nobles, sons of nobles, even the members of our own family.". Excerpt from letter from Affonso, King of Congo, to King of Portugal João III, 18 October 1526

5. WHO AND HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE ENSLAVED? • People often became slaves for reasons rooted in local disputes, and wars; or they became slaves as a demonstration of wealth and power on the part of a local ruler. However, enslavement at a local level could often lead to a chain reaction of sales from merchant to merchant ending up at the coast where the final sale resulted in being dispatched across the Ocean.

6. WAR A large number of people began the journey into slavery as prisoners of war. The Baganda in East Africa, for example, often went to war with their neighbors and took Bunyoro and Basoga people as slaves. With the rise of a large commercial slave trade, driven by European needs, enslaving your enemy became less a consequence of war and more and more a reason to go to war. This was particularly so in West Africa where, for example, the conflict between the kingdoms of Oyo and Dahomey resulted in prisoners of war being taken as slaves on both sides and then sold on to the coast.PUNISHMENT Some people were taken into slavery as a punishment. The crime might be witchcraft, theft, or adultery.DEBT DISCHARGE Selling someone into slavery could be a way of discharging a debt.FEEDING THE ORACLE In Bonny, the largest slave market in the delta of the river Niger many slaves were sold by order of the oracle, Chukwu. The slaves were then sold to merchants, but the oracle was said to have eaten them. 

7. TRIBUTE In the area of Senegal, in the 17th century, slaves were given to the king as part of a village's tribute to him, along with brandy, tobacco and cloth.KIDNAP A large number of people were quite simply kidnapped while going about their everyday tasks. Igbos were particularly wary of being kidnapped and always fortified their houses if they left their villages; but some like OlaudahEquiano were caught unawares. Elsewhere in West Africa Savanna horsemen would sweep down from the north to launch annual slave raids on agricultural people. Occasionally Europeans would kidnap people and turn them into slaves, although by doing this they ran the risk of annoying the chain of African middlemen which extended from the interior to the coast. VULNERABLE & UNWANTED In times of famine children might be sold. Orphans, widows and poor relations were equally vulnerable.BORN INTO SLAVERY Some slaves were born into slavery in Africa. Traders and captains of slave ships preferred these because they were less trouble, having never known anything but slavery.

8. Complete the sentence: Destruction of African cultures, traditions and families occurred as a result of the _______________________.