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Commerce in People:The Atlantic Slave Trade
By: Mike Zrust
Origins of Slave Trade
• Mediterranean and Indian ocean basin
• Portuguese mariners
• West and East Africa
Why use slaves from Africa?
• Religious justifications
• Plantation economies
• Disease
• Substantial numbers
Acquiring Slaves
• Early efforts by the Portuguese
• Exploiting African rivalries
• Use of trade and bargaining
African Slaves
Where they came from
• West Africa
• Mauritania in the north
• Angola In the south
• Moved inland with time
Where they went
• Brazil
• The Caribbean
• North America
• Europe
The Journey Across the Atlantic
• High mortality rate
• Suicide
• Terrible conditions
• Rebellions
• Mutiny on a slave ship video- Roots
Impact of Slave Trade in Africa
• Slowing of Africa’s growth
• Economic stagnation
• Labor demands for women
• Small-scale kinship societies
Response by African Kingdoms to Slavery
Kingdom of Benin
• Present-day Nigeria
• Avoided deep involvement
• Restricted slavery from 1516-1700’s
• Focused on exports to Europeans
Kingdom of Dahomey
• Also Present-day Nigeria
• Annual slave raids
• Conducted slave trade till the early nineteenth century
Economic Globalization- Then and Now
• Global circulation of goods
• International currency
• Production for the world market
• Growing economic role of the West
• Private enterprise
Documents
• 14.3 The Slave Trade and the Kingdom of Kongo (Pg. 705)
• 14.4 The Slave Trade and the Kingdom of Asante