Slavery

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Slavery
It's Impact on Africa the World
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Moors

• Moorish Conquest Control of Spain Portugal
  956-1492
• Trade between Northern Africa Europe
• Use of Slaves in Iberian Peninsula

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Portuguese Slave Trade

• Portugal explored West Coast of Africa
• Established commercial trading post on Islands
  off coast of Africa--these will become Holding
  Factories
• Goree Island

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Slave Wars

• Dutch, British French compete with Portuguese
  for control of slave trade.
• African Ethnic Groups begin wars to conquer
  territory enslave enemies.

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• Bight of Benin
• between 1711-1810 about 1 million people were
  captured along the Bight of Benin

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Goree Island

• Off Coast of Senegal
• slave port for 300 years
• exported over 10 of all slaves taken to the
  Americas
• 17 battles fought to control Goree

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In the Fortress

• Slaves were branded
• manacled to the walls
• fed on bread water
• held for 2 weeks to 2 months

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Middle Passage

• 11-15 million slaves survive the journey to the
  Americas
• no one knows how many died being captured
  transported--60 million?

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Slave warehouses

• Once slaves reached Caribbean they were sold to
  plantations or held in warehouses to be shipped
  to North or South America

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Where were they sent?
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In South America

• Coffee , tobacco, sugar plantations
• mining for
• gold, silver gem

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In Caribbean

• Sugar Plantations
• Europes craving for sugar was the 1 reason
  for the transatlantic slave trade

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Slave Revolts
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Revolts on board ships

• 240 known slave revolts that took place during
  the Middle Passage
• Amistad revolt in July of 1839 was one of few
  successful revolts
• Portrait of Cinque

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Slave revolts in colonies

• 250 recorded incidents of slave rebellions in the
  Americas
• Stono Rebellion in South Carolina, 1739
• Haiti, 1793

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Abolition Movement
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Olaudah Equiano
His autobiography inspired others to start
abolition movement
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English Abolitionism

• Lead by Granville Sharp
• English abolished slavery in 1830
• took leading role in stopping transatlantic slave
  trade

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Brazilian Antislave Movement

• Led by Joaquim Nabuco Antonio Alves
• Law of the Womb in 1871
• Golden Law in 1888

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Diaspora
Write down a definition for this word.
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How was African Slave Trade
Different
from previous
forms of
Slavery?

• Racism
• Hereditary
• Slave were property, not peoplegt No legal
  protections.

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Impact of slave trade

• 10-15 million dead
• suffering of the enslaved people
• European power wealth
• weakened Africa, allowing Europe to conquer
  Continent in 19th century
• Diaspora