The document discusses the trans-Atlantic slave trade. It explains that slavery originated from Africans being kidnapped and forced to work as slaves in American colonies. The Atlantic slave trade transported enslaved Africans along a triangular route between Europe, Africa, and America from the 16th to 19th centuries. Conditions during the middle passage were unhygienic and disease-ridden, resulting in many deaths. The slave trade economically exploited Africa by taking its human resources and negatively impacted its agriculture. Britain was the first to abolish the slave trade in 1807, though slavery itself continued and its legacy of injustice remains.

1. TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE
TRADE
By: T.A MBONANI

2. OBJECTIVES
 Explain the origins of slavery and what is the Atlantic slave trade?
 Display the conditions of the middle passage
 Explain the triangular trade route of the Atlantic slave trade between Africa, Europe
and America
 Explain the economical impact on Africa created by the Atlantic slave trade
 Explain when and why slave trade was abolished.

3. THE ORIGINS OF SLAVERY
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 Slavery is a condition in which one human being was owned by another. A slave was
considered by law as property and was deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by free
persons.
 Throughout the 17th and 18th century people were kidnapped in the continent of Africa and
forced to work for the American colonies whilst being exploited.

4. WHAT IS THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE?
 The Atlantic slave trade was a system of transporting African people as slaves
by slave traders mainly to the Americans.
 This system of slave trade existed from the 16th to 19th centuries.
 Most slaves were from the Central and West Africa, who were sold by other
Africans.
 The targeted ages were from 15-35 years mostly males.
 The slave trade used the triangular trade route and the middle passage.

5. THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
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6. THE CONDITIONS OF THE MIDDLE
PASSAGE
 The ships often carried hundreds of African slaves , chained tightly to
plank beds.
 Unhygienic condition
 Dehydration
 Malnutrition
 Dysentery and Scurvy
 This led to a high mortality rate meaning around 15 million Africans were
traded to the Americans but a quarter of them never made it due to these
bad conditions.

7. THE TRIANGULAR TRADE ROUTE
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8. CONTINUED…
 The triangular trade route represents how the trading in the 16th to 19th
century took place
 Europeans traded arms, textiles and wine to Africa
 Africans then traded with slaves to the Americans
 Americans then traded sugar, coffee, cotton and tobacco to the Europeans

9. ECONOMICAL IMPACT OF THE ATLANTIC
SLAVE TRADE ON AFRICA
 Research suggests that without slave trade, 72% of Africa’s income gap
with the rest of the world would not exist today
 Most developed countries supplied largest number of slaves
 Africa got exploited of its human resource mainly labour which in turn
created instability in the economy of Africa
 Africa’s agriculture also suffered as the remaining people were too old to
keep it steady

10. ABOLITION OF SLAVE TRADE
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11. CONTINUED…
 Slave trade was first abolished in the United Kingdom
 The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 was passed which deemed slavery as am
illegal offence.
 Although it did not stop slavery but the trade was now illegal
 One of the reasons was that slaves were no longer their main focus on the
economical sector

12. SUMMARY
 Trans-atlantic or Atlantic slave trade was a system of enslaving and
transporting Africans to America.
 This happened through ships and the slaves were placed in bad living
conditions during the middle passage whereby there was poor sanitation
and many African slaves died during the voyage because of the diseases.
 The trading took place through a triangular trade route between Europe,
Africa and America.
 The Atlantic slave trade impacted Africa’s economy as Africa got exploited
its human resource

13. SUMMARY
 The slave trade was abolished in 1807 by the United Kingdom
 However, the Atlantic slave trade has had a negative influence across the
globe and created injustices as even today black people are not seen as
equal to white people.

14. REFERENCES
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