AIM: How did the Atlantic Slave Trade affect life in Africa? DO NOW TRIVIA: Agree or disagree? Correct if you disagree. 1.Africa is a vast country made up of rainforest, desert and savanna. _____________ 2.Ghana and Mali became wealthy because of its gold._________ 3.Mansa Musa spread Christianity in West Africa. ___________ 4.Timbuktu was a prominent city in Mali. ____________ HW: Pretend you are a slave who has just arrived in the western hemisphere. Write a diary entry which is entitled either “The worst is over” or “The worst is yet to come”

1.Who is in this picture? 2.What is happening in this picture? 3.Where is this happening? 4.When did this happen? 5.WHY did this happen?

#1 Slave - A person who is forced to work and becomes the property of a person or household. The person does not receive payment for their work.

#2 The Atlantic Slave Trade- ( ) massive enterprise of buying, selling and transporting Africans to work in the Americas. By 1870, 9.5 million Africans were imported to the Americas

Fill in the blanks. Underline the subject and circle the verb. 1.Africans were transported by ____________ to the Americas. 2.Africans were ___________ by Europeans and forced to work. 3.A ___________ is a person who is the property of someone else. 4.The __________ ___________ ____________ was a huge business that lasted for hundreds of years. HW:

Where were African slaves brought to? Africans were brought to _______, _______,________ & ______.

#1 MIDDLE PASSAGE- the voyage route that captured Africans from West Africa and transported them to the West Indies in the Americas. Considered the middle leg of the Triangular Trade Network.

The grueling journey from capture in Africa to enslavement in the Americas often took four months. It was called Middle Passage. Typically living in the underbelly of a dark, stench-filled, airless wooden ship, men, women and children chained hand and foot were left near starvation. New York City was part of a triangulated trade route, which went from Africa to New York. Therefore to many Africans who encountered it, New York City's harbor was just a frightening, floating stop on a horrible and arduous nightmare journey to other ports of call. Separated from family, friends, and loved ones, they were sold to the highest bidder. There was a slave market on Wall Street.There was a slave market on Wall Street. THE MIDDLE PASSAGE

WHAT IS THE GOING ON IN THIS PICTURE?

*NOTES* HOW DID THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE AFFECT LIFE IN THE AFRICAN CONTINENT??? 1. West Africa loss a countless number of men and women resulting in the disappearance of some small states 2. New African states rose which became dependent on the slave trade. 3. African rulers waged war against other Africans so they could gain control of the slave trade in their region and reap the profits 4. Some African leaders resisted and believed trade in human lives was evil. (Affonso I & almamy of Futa Toro)

DO NOW TRIVIA: 1.I am a person who is owned by another and forced into labor without compensation ___________ 2.I am the people who began the Atlantic slave trade ______________ 3.I am the route used to transport Africans from West Africa to the Americas _____________ 4.MAKE UP YOUR OWN