#1 – Slave Trade – 1500s to 1800s Globalization has created massive wealth, allowed easier access to products for all, and has created a perpetual engine of innovation. However, for all the positives our interconnected economy has many negatives as well. One of the most pressing is the ever widening income inequality gap that has created slums on the door step of industrial cities like Mumbai.

Slavery 10 to 15 million slaves sent to the New World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NXC4Q_4JVg Slavery 10 to 15 million slaves sent to the New World Purchased from Gold Coast and Slave Coast (West Africa)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NXC4Q_4JVg  

Slave Trade 15th to 19th Century African kings traded slaves to the Europeans for guns. African kings obtained slaves from prisoners of war captured in conflicts between African kingdoms http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_slavery/2015/06/a nimated_interactive_of_the_history_of_the_atlantic_slave_trade.html

Middle Passage Slaves traveled in the “Middle Passage” Suffered disease, maltreatment, drowning and psychological depression. Slaves were packed like cargo between decks 1 out of 6 slaves died on the “Middle Passage” Slaves and European Crew both had the same death rate

Effects on Africa Sometimes, disrupted whole societies African Diaspora African culture was spread throughout the world

African Diaspora Well over 90 percent of African slaves were imported into the Caribbean and South America. Only about 6 percent of imports went directly to British North America. Yet by 1825, the U.S. had a quarter of blacks in the New World.