1. Aim: How did the Triangle-Slave Trade begin?
Do Now: In what ways is this advertisement dehumanizing?

2. HW#66: Due tomorrow
, Answer 3,4,5

3. Do Now: In what ways is this advertisement dehumanizing?

4. How did the Triangle-Slave Trade Work?

5. Background
In the beginning, Portuguese traders traded guns and manufactured goods to Africans for their war prisoners.
African groups would use the weapons to take more prisoners to trade with the Europeans.
Eventually, the Europeans started taking the slaves themselves.
By the time the African leaders started objecting to this process, it was too late.

6. Where did slaves come from in the West African Slave Trade?

7. Nzinga Mbemba (Afonso I) ManiKongo of the Kingdom of the Kongo
King of Kongo from 1509 to late 1542 or 1543
Elected King
Converted to Catholicism and tried to convert the rest of his kingdom.
Lived to be 86 or 87

8. Afonso Reading
2. How have the Portuguese undermined Afonso I’s authority?
3. Why does Mbemba (Afonso) think King Joao III might help? What do you think they had in common?

9. How did the Europeans justify taking slaves?