1. 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.

2. Essential Question:
What was the impact of the slave trade on Africa and Europe?

3. Slave Trade
Twenty million Africans were transported to the Americas during more than 300 years of the transatlantic trade.

4. Slave Trade
Played an important role in European economic development and its transition to capitalism.

5. Human Capital Investing in humans.
Ex: Education, Training, Service, etc.

6. Your Turn….Advantages and Disadvantages of the Slave Trade (Individually).
African Advantages
European Advantages
African Disadvantages
European Disadvantages

7. Directions: 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.

8. 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.

9. European Disadvantages
Slavery was morally repugnant (offensive, disgusting).

10. European Disadvantages
Slavery compromised efforts of Christian missionaries.

11. Your Turn
1. What were some of the reasons Europeans sought to enslave Africans?

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

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

14. 4. How long did the slave trade last?

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

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

17. Conclusion
Essential QUESTION: What was the impact of the slave trade on Africa and Europe?