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Africa The Slave Trade

Amazing Fact From the 1500s to the 1800s, slave traders sent an estimated 10 to 15 million Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas

A. Exploring the Coast of Africa Portuguese were looking for routes around Africa to India Set up trading posts in West Africa Traded iron and copper for fish, sugar, ivory, gold, and pepper

B. Trade in Human Beings Needed slaves to work in mines and plantations in the Americas Local labor had all ready “died off” Slavery in Africa Captured in war Sold themselves The Atlantic Slave Trade The “Middle Passage” Slaves for guns Europeans bought slaves with guns Local rulers attacked other villages with guns

C. Ending the Slave Trade William Wilberforce, a Christian in the English parliament, spoke out against slavery for some 30 years Abolition: the movement to end slavery In 1807, England outlawed the slave trade “Black market” in slaves continued

D. Effects of the Slave Trade Disrupted societies by loss of labor Disrupted relations among tribes on continent Sierra Leone and Liberia a. In 1787, Britain set up Sierra Leone as a colony in West Africa for freed slaves b. Liberia was a colony for slaves freed from the United States

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Africa Student Notes

Amazing Fact From the 1500s to the 1800s, slave traders sent an estimated 10 to 15 million Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas

A. Exploring the Coast of Africa Portuguese were looking for routes around Africa to India Set up trading posts in West Africa Traded iron and copper for fish, sugar, ivory, gold, and pepper

B. Trade in Human Beings Needed slaves to work in mines and plantations in the Americas Local labor had all ready “died off” Slavery in Africa Captured in war Sold themselves The Atlantic Slave Trade The “Middle Passage” Slaves for guns Europeans bought slaves with guns Local rulers attacked other villages with guns

C. Ending the Slave Trade William Wilberforce, a Christian in the English parliament, spoke out against slavery for some 30 years Abolition: the movement to end slavery In 1807, England outlawed the slave trade “Black market” in slaves continued

D. Effects of the Slave Trade Disrupted societies by loss of labor Disrupted relations among tribes on continent Sierra Leone and Liberia a. In 1787, Britain set up Sierra Leone as a colony in West Africa for freed slaves b. Liberia was a colony for slaves freed from the United States