African Slave Trade

African Slave Trade

GPS: SS7H1: The student will analyze continuity and change in Africa leading to the 21st century.

Element A: Explain how the European partitioning across Africa contributed to conflict,

civil war, and artificial political boundaries.

Essential Question:

What was the impact of the slave trade on Africa and Europe?

Slave TradeTwenty million

Africans were transported to the Americas during more than 300 years of the transatlantic trade.

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Slave TradePlayed an important role in European

economic development and its transition to capitalism.





Human Capital

Investing in humans.Ex: Education, Training, Service, etc.

Slave TradeOn the continent of Africa, the western and

central areas were dramatically impacted by a drain of human capital.



Your Turn….Advantages and Disadvantages of the Slave Trade

(Individually).African Advantages European Advantages

African Disadvantages European Disadvantages

African Slave Trade 15th - 19th Centuries: Triangular Trade



3 Member Group WorkDirections: Read three narratives 1 - From a Christian African King 2 - By a French Slave Trader 3 - An African who was enslaved and

sent to America when he was only 11 years old.

African Advantages European Advantages*slavery provided profit for a few collaborators, which did nothing for Africa’s overall development.*In times of famine, some Africans avoided starvation by selling themselves into slavery.

*Slavery was a profitable trade.*Slavery was a bountiful source of cheap labor to help run plantations.*Slavery helped build a capital base which fueled the Industrial Revolution.

African DisadvantagesSlavery tore

apart communities and families.



African DisadvantagesSlavery depopulated the labor base.



African DisadvantagesSlavery hindered African economic

development.



African DisadvantagesEnslaved Africans were

transported in brutal conditions, shackled together with chains, and forced to lie in rat infested filth. Many died covered in vomit and human waste.



African DisadvantagesEnslaved Africans were treated as

commodities.



African DisadvantagesAfricans received only trinkets and guns as

part of the triangular trade.



Mini fact: Trinkets are simply junk.

African Disadvantages

Some Africans began to desire merchandise and would even sell other Africans into slavery in order to get what they wanted.



African DisadvantagesThe enslaved

Africans were beaten, branded with irons, and given very little food or clothes.



European DisadvantagesSlavery was morally repugnant

(offensive, disgusting).

European DisadvantagesSlavery compromised efforts of Christian

missionaries.



Your Turn1. What were some of the reasons

Europeans sought to enslave Africans?

2. What were some of the reasons why Africans sold fellow Africans into slavery?

3. How were enslaved Africans treated by the traders and their masters?

4. How long did the slave trade last?

5. Why did the European countries gradually abolish the slave trade and, eventually, slavery altogether?

6. What were the overall effects of slavery on the development of Africa? Europe?

ConclusionEssential QUESTION: What was the

impact of the slave trade on Africa and Europe?

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African Slave Trade