2012 Africa 15 th – 18 th Centuries

AT TIME OF PRINCE HENRY HE SPONSORED EXPEDITIONS OF DISCOVERY THE DOWN THE WESTERN COAST OF AFRICA.

The caravel was developed in about 1450, under the sponsorship of Prince Henry the Navigator

Vasco da Gama- First to sail to India around Cape of Good Hope- 1498

Establishment of Sugar Plantations on Islands… By 1500 the Portuguese had transported approximately 81,000 slaves to these various markets.  Canary Islands  Madeira Islands  Cape Verde Sugar Plantations on the Islands needed workers… The era of European slave trading begins...  Explores first wanted gold from Africa…..later for work on plantations… slave trade

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 15 Million of Africa’s strongest & healthiest men and women robbed from the continent!  Wealth of labor taken from Africa to the Americas.  Slave trade destroyed the incentive to develop cash crops and a agrarian revolution.  Lack of industrial revolution & other sources of wealth- created lack of economic development in Africa. Lack of development of infrastructure; electricity, water systems…  Africa was left behind other continents in economic development!  Wars/tribal wars weakened governments.  Africa's ability to defend itself was seriously compromised.

Abolitionist Movement Begin!  Abolition Movement- Church of England  End of “Slave Trade”  illegal for British Ship to be involved in slave trade  Britain Abolished Slavery  U.S. Abolished Slavery  Brazil Abolished Slavery

IDEAS OF LIBERTY- FRENCH REVOLUTION SLAVE REBELLIONS

CHURCH OF ENGLAND- SERMONS AGAINST SLAVERY INDUSTRIALIZATION REVOLUTION

1850- EXPLORES HAD MAPPED MOST OF AFRICA DAVID LIVINGSTONE