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Slave Trade 1. Dimensions and Origins Why Africa? Impact on Africa

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1 Slave Trade 1. Dimensions and Origins Why Africa? Impact on Africa
Slavery and the World Forced labor and plantations Change in the Caribbean Trade networks Profits

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3 Number of Slaves Brought to the New World
275,000 1,341,000 (sugar cane in the Caribbean) 6 million (sugar cane in the Caribbean and cotton and tobacco in USA 1807 Abolition of slave trade by Britain 2 million

4 Middle Passage

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6 Slave ships

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9 Population (millions)
1650 1750 1850 1900 Africa 100 120 Europe 103 144 274 423 Asia 257 457 656 857

10 Triangular Trade

11 Share Prices Of S.S. Co.

12 South Sea Bubble, Edward Matthew Ward

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14 Gorée

15 Gorée, The door of no return.

16 Gorée

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