PPT-The Atlantic Slave Trade

Credit given to Holt Rinehart and Winston Publishing for portions of this presentation Reading Focus Where did the Atlantic slave trade originate How did slavery evolve in the American colonies. L/O – . To discover who benefited from the slave trade and to identify the arguments used to defend it. Starter. – . Which groups of people profited from the Slave Trade? Think about what was brought and sold. Credit given to: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston . Publishing for portions of this presentation. Below decks on an illegal slave ship seized by a British antislavery patrol in 1846.. Reading Focus. Where did the Atlantic slave trade originate?. . Known, collectively, as . Bulls of Donation. This bull is credited . by many historians with “ushering in the West African slave trade”. Some . historians view . the 3 bulls . together as extending the theological legacy of Pope Urban II’s Crusades to justify European colonization and expansionism. Barbara Anderson. African Studies Center, UNC-Chapel Hill. November 2013. b_anderson@unc.edu. . . http://africa.unc.edu/. . How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade begin?. Why did Europeans choose Africans?. Margin Review Questions. What drove European involvement in the world of Asian commerce?. Desire . for tropical spices, Chinese silk, Indian cottons, rhubarb, emeralds, rubies, and . sapphires. Recovery . In the Beginning. Portugal’s Prince Henry was looking for a sea route around Africa to India. West African Kingdoms had an abundance or gold and other resources. Small trading stations on Africa’s western coast. The Beginning. Factories:. Established trading forts allowing trade from the interior. Much is established with the consent of the African people.. El Mina. Missionary efforts. Europeans saw the Africans as pagan savages (just like the saw everyone else). Forced removal of Africans. African culture became one of the important strands in the development of American civilizations.. Islam consolidated its position in sub-Saharan and east Africa. Most of Africa remain independent states. Forced Migration of Millions . 1575 - 1888. The Demand: Labor in the New World. Conquistadors, work, and disease. Up to 85% of the total native American population is killed. #1 Cause: disease. following disease, execution & overwork caused massive numbers of deaths. Pre-Existing Slave Trade. Trans-Saharan trade routes (Red Sea and East African) had been trading slaves for centuries throughout the Middle East and Northern Africa. Mostly women: traded as concubines for harems; domestic servants. Unit 5: The Economy of Resources. What do you think? . What is . Slavery?. Slavery is when a person owns or has complete control of another person or people.. The . African Slave . Trade was . a. mass involuntary migration . Source: Mastering the TEKs in World History. Jarrett, Zimmer, Killoran. . They couldn’t just find directions on Google Maps…. The goods introduced to Europe during the crusades and the writings of Marco Polo had increased European interest in trade with Asia. . Source: . Mastering the TEKs in World History. . Jarrett, Zimmer, . Killoran. , 2012. They couldn’t just find directions on Google Maps…. The goods introduced to Europe during the Crusades and the writings of Marco Polo had increased European interest in trade with Asia. . Lesson 5. History of African Slavery. Slavery has existed since antiquity. It became common in Africa after the Bantu migrations spread agriculture to all parts of the continent. History of African Slavery.