1. How did the slave trade affect Africa?
Lesson starter
Describe the Triangular Trade in 140 letters (not including spaces)

2. I can… We are learning to…
Explain the effect of the Slave Trade on Africa
I can…
Take down key facts
Use the key facts to create a priority diagram

3. Background
Portuguese explorers had explored West Africa around 1540 looking for gold
Africa was a tribal country – people stuck together in groups – usually due to a common ancestry
They found Africans buying and selling slaves and decided to join in
When labour was needed growing sugar in the West Indies during the 17th and 18th century, it seemed the obvious thing to do to take Africans to the West Indies and sell them

4. The Asante Empire
The powerful Asante people (Ashanti) dominated the area known as the Gold Coast (modern day Ghana).
They had built up a trade in gold with Europeans but by the 1770s they traded in slaves.
The Asante would enslave people that broke laws, after 1790 they fought wars to defend/expand their empire and prisoners of war were sold to Europeans.
The dominance of the Asante people meant that around a million Africans were captured by them on the Gold Coast.

5. Fact Finding – how did the Slave Trade damage Africa?

6. I can… We are learning to…
Explain the effect of the Slave Trade on Africa
I can…
Take down key facts
Complete a N5 question
Use the key facts to create a priority diagram

7. How did the Slave Trade affect Africa as a whole? Useful facts
Death & Population depletion
It is estimated around 12million people were taken from Africa to the Americas as slaves
It is estimated around 6million more died on the journey or on their way to the coast to get on the slave ship
Many died waiting for the slave ships to take them as they were kept near rivers like the Congo river, where killer disease like Malaria was common

8. Useful facts contd. Death & Population depletion
Experts think Africa’s population would be double what it is now had it not been for the slave trade
Most taken as slaves were young people; this left fewer people to grow food and famine (hunger) became common

9. Useful facts contd. Development
Lots of land was left uncultivated because there was not enough free people left to grow crops
There are still huge areas of barren land in Ghana and Nigeria which stem from the slave trade

10. Useful facts contd. War The slave trade encouraged war between tribes
The demand for more and more slaves led to increased violence and hatred between African communities
Some still exist today

11. Useful facts last page! Racism
People who supported the slave trade (usually those who made money from it) used propaganda to encourage the belief that Africans were inferior people
Some of those ideas lasted many years

12. Question Practise
Explain the impact of the slave trade on African society. (6 marks)

13. Priority Diagram Effect 1 Effect 2 Effect 3 Effect 4
Use the Five effects of the slave Trade on Africa to create a priority diagram
Death & Population Depletion – Development – War – Racism
Rank them in order of most important – least important
Provide a reason for each being in that place
Effect 1
Effect 2
Effect 3
Effect 4