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Events that Occurred During and After Ancient African Kingdoms Transatlantic Slave Trade. Scramble for Africa.

Transatlantic = Across the Atlantic Ocean

Transatlantic Slave Trade Sugar, tobacco, cotton to Europe Cloth, rum, horses, guns to Africa Slaves to the Americas

Transatlantic Slave Trade Between 1450 and the late 1800s 10-15 million African people were kidnapped and sold into slavery. Packed onto to crowded ships and brought to Americans as a source of free labor. Profitable and cruel. 1619 first slave ship arrives in Virginia.

Transatlantic Slave Trade Between 1450 and the late 1800s People would return from working in the fields or from hunting, and find their families missing. Entire villages captured by slave traders. Some African kingdoms, like Benin, refused to participate in the slave trade. Other Kingdoms eager to trade African people for goods like beads, cloth, rum, horses and guns.

Transatlantic Slave Trade Between 1450 and the late 1800s The European traders had no trouble filling ships with captured people. Many people died on the trip from Africa to America. People packed on board without any thought of their comfort or even survival. No bathroom facilities and disease killed so many.

They didn’t steal slaves. They made slaves.

Transatlantic Slave Trade Between 1450 and the late 1800s After the Civil War, it was illegal to buy/sell slaves in the U.S.

Scramble for Africa Between 1881 and 1914

The "Scramble for Africa" is the takeover of African territory by European powers between 1881 and 1914. It is also called the Partition of Africa.

How Does This All Tie Together? White Europeans people believed they were a superior race. The beliefs of European (White) superiority came to America though colonization first and then through slavery in which Blacks were treated as animals for labor. During the Civil War (1860s), slaves were freed but Whites in slave states did not immediately change their attitudes and beliefs. Many laws were made to prevent Blacks from having equal rights. The Civil Rights Movement (1950s and 60s) saw people working together to end discrimination against Blacks but, again, many Whites continued to feel they were superior. Black Lives Matter (2013) is a movement against violence and systems of racism towards Black people.

Notes About Racism As the world progresses and changes, racism adapts. Because it doesn’t affect White people directly, they may not be as open to seeing it. For example: White people are not followed in stores but Black people often are. White dolls fill shelves in the toy aisle, but it is very hard to find dark skinned dolls. Books that feature Black central characters often include themes of poverty, crime, and basketball, but are rarely about normal day to day life. Black students face greater rates of suspension, expulsion and arrests than their White classmates. White kids are more likely to have a teacher that is the same race as them. And so much more….

Context for Black Lives Matter (Video) Vocabulary for this video: Acquitted: Found innocent. Indicted: Prosecuted for or charged with a crime. Open carry state: A state where carrying a legally owned gun in public is legal. (People who want to carry a gun without people seeing it need a concealed weapon permit.) Perjury: To lie. Exploit: Many definitions: adventure or misuse/abuse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=eaEeEbP16Wg

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