1. Your Name ______________________________
Period ______________
Unit 1 – Africa
Lesson 4 – European Slave Trade, and
European Invasion

2. What is Freedom? What does it look like?
How do you know if you have it?
Why is it wrong to NOT have it?

3. What is Slavery? What does it look like? What does it feel like?
Why is it wrong?

4. Portuguese Arrival to Africa
1400s – Europeans were looking for a passage to Asia by sea
Africa was in the way
Portugal founded colonies
Purpose: fueling depots
Grew into trading posts

5. Portuguese Colonial Empire

6. Slave Trade Slavery was not new to Africa
Africans often captured other Africans after battle
Portuguese introduced a new use for captured Africans: ship Africans to work the American plantations

7. Map work Using the next two maps, answer the following question:
From what region of Africa most slaves come?

10. Map work Using the next map, answer the following question:
2. To what two regions of the Americas did most Africans end up?

12. Map work Using the next map, answer the following question:
3. What years had the most movement of Africans to the Americas?

14. Pie Graph work Using the next graph, answer the following question:
4. Which 3 nations captured and transported the most slaves to the Americas?

15. EUROPEAN INVADERS

16. How did Africans get to the Americas?
Captured
Transported to coast
Transferred to ship
THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
Sold at an auction

17. THE CAPTURE Africans were captured, brought to coastal towns
Marched in chains and ropes for thousands of miles; sometimes iron bands on neck
Held in small pens for departure

18. THE MIDDLE PASSAGE Disease rampant; mistreatment horrible
Definition: the transfer to the Americas from Africa on slave ships
Hundreds were packed into ships as cargo
Journey was 3 weeks to 3 months
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Disease rampant; mistreatment horrible
Floating coffins – sometimes half would die on voyage
Suicide, mutinies, death

19. Book Work
Look at the graphs on p What was the 110 year time span when the greatest number of Africans were forced into slavery?

20. Book Work
6. Look at the last paragraph on p. 94 and the next on p. 95. What is meant by ABOLITION? 7. When did Britain end the slave trade?

21. IMPACT OF SLAVE TRADE
Read p. 95, paragraphs 3-4 (starting “in some parts…) to show the impact dealing with:
Wars and tensions:
Economic life:
The harvest:
Then read the paragraph on p. 96 on the bottom right.
11. How did Liberia and Sierra Leone form?

22. Your Opinion
9. Would you have the guts to be an abolitionist? Imagine you are a senator from South Carolina. What pressures would you have to NOT ever end slavery?

23. EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM Look at p. 95, paragraph #2
10. Why did the Slave Trade become less popular as Europeans industrialized in the 1800s?