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 was about to begin...  Explores first wanted gold from Africa…..late 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 occurring in other parts of the world.  Lack of industrial revolution & other sources of wealth- created lack of economic development in Africa. Lack of development of infrastructure; electricity, water systems…  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

2 nd Phase of European Contact with Africa

 For Europeans, these treaties meant that Africans had signed away their sovereignties (rights);  but for Africans, the treaties were merely diplomatic and commercial friendship treaties.  Cartoon depicting the Berlin Conference.

The Berlin Conference of 1884 regulated European colonization and trade in Africa.

 After discovering that they had in effect been defrauded by the European powers  African rulers organized militarily to resist the seizure of their lands and the imposition of colonial domination.

NEW MAXIM GUN MEDICINE TO PROTECT AGAINST DISEASE.