the Atlantic Slave Trade

1. US History 11 - CHEE
A Meeting of Three Worlds:
Europe, Africa, and the Americas
Colonization Begins 1492–1680
Lecture 1.3 – Africans to Americas:
The Atlantic Slave Trade

2. The Atlantic Trade

3. Native
Americans of
North
America
50-70 million people
when Europeans first
arrived.
70-90 million in Europe
50-70 million in Africa
225-350 million in Asia

4. Gathering the Harvest (p. 10)

5. Indian
Ocean
trade

6. Sugar was the Motivation
Behind the Atlantic Slave Trade
High caloric & valuable
commodity
o500 BCE -processing started in
Guinea, southeast Asia
o700s, 1100s-1400s – Arabs
introduced it to Europeans
o1400s – Europeans attempted
plantations in Mediterranean &
off of West African coast
o1500s – moves to Brazil & the
Caribbean

7. 7
The Atlantic Slave Trade, c.1500-1800

8. Africans &
Forced Migrati
to the New
World

9. Njinga Mbemba or King Afonso I (1509-1543)
Converts to
Christianity
Later attempts to
stop or limit the
African slave trade
with the
Portuguese

10. Queen Nzinga of the Ndongo
(life 1583-1663) (Angola) SW Africa

11. 11
Queen Nzinga
– 40 years of
keeping the
Portuguese
from
conquering the
Ndongo
Angola eventually
becomes the first
European colony in 1648,
and Ndongo falls at the
end of her reign

12. Slaver Ship Diagram –
1808 abolitionist report
Middle passage

13. Atlantic Trade

14. Justification for
slavery – religious
& racial
1863 – Louisiana slave named Gordon after he escaped to the
Union forces
o Africans were inferior
to Europeans – lack of
intelligence &
o Non-Christian or lack of
morals

15. Olaudah Equiano
(1745-1797)
Former Slave turned
Abolitionist who wrote
about the middle passage

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