The document summarizes the effects of the Atlantic slave trade on Africa and the Americas. In Africa, the slave trade disrupted demographic patterns and family structures by targeting men. It undermined the economy by introducing European goods used to trade for slaves. It also increased wars and tensions as slaves became a commodity. In the Americas, the slave trade led to demographic changes and the integration of African culture. It also boosted the economy but left a legacy of racial and economic inequality. The Atlantic slave trade differed from other historical slavery in its immense scale, hereditary nature without chance of freedom, targeting of Africans, and rationalization by Europeans.

1. The Slave Trade
Then and Now

3. Effects of the Slave Trade on
Africa
• Demographic change
• Focus on men affected male/female
ratios and family structure
• European goods that were used to
trade for slaves undermined the
African economy
• Market for slaves (war captives)
created more wars and political
tensions.

4. Effects of the Slave Trade on the
Americas
• Demographic changes
• Cultural changes
--African culture (religion, music, art,
and food) added
• Economic boom
• History of racial and economic
problems

5. Differences between Atlantic Slave
Trade and other historical slavery
• NUMBERS and TIME! 10 to 13 million
people traded in four centuries
• Hereditary slavery with no chance for
freedom.
• Targeting of one racial/regional group
• Rationalization of slavery by Europeans
• High death tolls in transit and during
captivity.

6. Source Analysis – Slave Trade
Read the source by John Barbot
• List some of the ways that people
were enslaved according to the
source.
Read the source by Nzinga Mbemba
• What is King Afonso’s objections to
the way that the slave trade was
happening?

7. Source Analysis
• What were the main similarities between
the two documents in purpose? In tone?
• What were the main differences in
purpose? In Tone?
• What influenced the point of view of
Afonso?
• What influenced the point of view of
Barbot?

8. Slavery
Today