Malawi’s home village

Asante Warrior going to capture slaves for sale on the West African

coast.

Coffle to the Coast #4

#6 Inspection before Sale: 3 muskets, or 100 lbs of gunpowder, or 600 feet of cloth, or steel tools,

#9 Slave pen to the left – 100 people were

crammed in here

Elmina Castle or English Slave Factory in Ghana

Europeans stayed on the coast and bought slaves from Africans – Resistance and disease

The Point of No Return:Leaving the

Slave Castle/Factory for the Middle

Passage

Designed to carry 450 slaves, it often carried

over 600.Between 10-33%

of slaves died crossing the

Atlantic in the MIDDLE PASSAGE

Over 250 recorded slave ship rebellions