A focus on the slave trade then and now.

1. The Slave Trade
Then and Now

3. Effects of the Slave Trade on
Africa
• Focus on men affected male/female
ratios and family structure
• Economic dependence by Africans
on European goods undermined
African artisans and economy
• Warfare and rivalries changed
political structures

4. Effects of the Slave Trade on the
Americas
• Demographic and cultural changes
--African culture (religion, music, art,
and food) added to American culture
• 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 slaves
were taken according to the source.
Read the source by Nzinga Mbemba
• What is King Afonso’s objection to
slavery?

7. Slavery
Today