1. Africa
The Slave Trade

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

3. 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

4. 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

9. 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

11. 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

12. The End

13. Africa
Student Notes

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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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