1. #1 – Slave Trade – 1500s to 1800s
Globalization has created massive wealth, allowed easier access to products for all, and has created a perpetual engine of innovation. However, for all the positives our interconnected economy has many negatives as well. One of the most pressing is the ever widening income inequality gap that has created slums on the door step of industrial cities like Mumbai.

2. Slavery 10 to 15 million slaves sent to the New World
Slavery
10 to 15 million slaves sent to the New World
Purchased from Gold Coast and Slave Coast (West Africa)

3. Slave Trade 15th to 19th Century
African kings traded slaves to the Europeans for guns.
African kings obtained
slaves from prisoners of
war captured in conflicts
between African kingdoms
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5. Middle Passage Slaves traveled in the “Middle Passage”
Suffered disease, maltreatment, drowning and psychological depression.
Slaves were packed like cargo between decks
1 out of 6 slaves died on the “Middle Passage”
Slaves and European Crew both had the same death rate

6. Effects on Africa Sometimes, disrupted whole societies
African Diaspora
African culture was spread throughout the world

7. African Diaspora
Well over 90 percent of African slaves were imported into the Caribbean and South America.
Only about 6 percent of imports went directly to British North America. Yet by 1825, the U.S. had a quarter of blacks in the New World.