1. Bell Work 2/22 Why does Africa have such a low standard of living?

3. European Background Portuguese started African slave trade in 1441 First Africans in Hispanola in 1505 1450-1850 ~12 million Africans sent to Americas

4. How to Get Slaves? TRADE! –Africans traded slaves for manufactured goods like clothes, silk, guns, pots, and copper African Kingdoms gained wealth and power from the trade African “entrepreneurs” Middle Men –Kidnapping

5. Capture Africans became enslaved four ways: 1.criminals sold by the chiefs as punishment; 2.free Africans obtained from raids by African and a few European gangs 3.domestic slaves resold 4.prisoners of war.

6. What does this picture tell you? –Europeans did not penetrate the African interior –Guns March to the Coast

7. What role did geography play in the Triangle of Trade?

8. Portuguese Slave Trade The sugar plantations required a large labor force. Slaves filled this demand. Europeans and Africans Meet to Trade

10. The British colonies in North America received only 4% of the total slaves from Africa. Brazil and the West Indies- received about 80% combined.

12. Exportation Trip called the Middle Passage 5000 miles, 3 wks. to 3 mos. 20-25% died Strip Africans’ self respect and self identity

13. The Middle Passage Unimaginable Suffering

14. Slave Master Brands

15. The Middle Passage

17. Correcting Misconceptions Africans sold their brothers and sisters into slavery There was no one African identity Africa is a BIG place—many different ethnic groups BIG

18. Inspection and Sale

19. First Slave Auction New Amsterdam (Dutch New York City - 17c)

20. By the time the slave trade ended in the 1800s, millions of Africans had been taken from their homes. IMPACT ON WEST AFRICA

21. Impact of Slave Trade on the Americas Cultural Diffusion – --The slave trade spread ideas and goods between cultures (cultural diffusion). --Europeans brought new weapons to Africa. --Africans brought part of their culture (like music food, traditions, Language) to the Americas.