Please take a moment to answer and comment on the following questions pertaining to the Slave Trade in Africa based on our reading in The African-American Odyssey.
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What types of slave trade was conducted in Africa
and for what purposes?
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What are the origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade in
relation to the enslavement of African Americans in the New World?
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What contributions did interethnic rivalries in
West Africa make in relation to enslavement African Americans in the New World?
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What colonies acquired slaves in the greatest
numbers? What regions or countries became central to the slave trade and
why?
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What are factories in the terms of slave trading?
Here are some additional resources that will help
us answer such questions. Use them in addition to the book to answer the
questions below.
- http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/assessment/intro-maps.faces
- http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/assessment/estimates.faces
1. In Africa there was mainly the Islamic slave trade. The trade dealt mainly with women and children who as slaves were destined for lives as concubines and domestic servants in North Africa and southwest Asia.
ReplyDelete2. It started as early as 1441. The Portuguese would travel for ivory, silk, spices, gold, and slaves. In decades to come the Portuguese would continue to capture Africans to work as domestic servants in Portugal and Spain. Around 1472 the Portuguese stopped capturing Africans themselves and instead would purchase them from African traders. As the demand for slaves grew, so did interethnic rivalries in West Africa. This version of the Atlantic Slave trade continued through the early sixteenth century until Columbus made his voyage. Once he came across the New World, many other European countries followed suit and set up colonies in the Caribbean, Mexico, Central, and South America. The Atlantic Slave Trade continued to grow as colonies in the New World grew.
3. Interethnic rivalries in West Africa led to the warfare that produced slaves during the sixteenth century.
4. Portugal and Spain dominated the Atlantic Slave Trade. From the beginning of the trade until its ninetieth-century abolition, about 6,500,000 of the approximately 11,328,000 Africans taken to the Americans went to Brazil and Spain’s colonies.
5. Factories were European headquarters for slave trading on the West African coast.
1) The Islamic Slave trade was taking place. In this slave trade women and children were being kidnap and sold into slavery. As a slave they would be concubines and servants in North Africa and Southwest Asia.
ReplyDelete2) The Atlantic Slave trade first started the enslavement of Africans in 1441. The Portuguese would traded for gold, ivory, pepper, and slaves. In the beginning the Portuguese would bring back their slaves as a gift to the Portuguese prince. After that they would just kidnap the Africans, later on European countries would just buy the slaves from African traders. This would continue for several centuries until Columbus landed in the Americas. After the European countries started colonies in the Americas they need people to work for them. That's when they started bringing slaves into America.
3) Interethnic rivalries in West Africa led to the warfare that produced these slaves during the sixteenth century.
4) Portugal and Spain acquired slaves in the greatest numbers. About 6,500,000 out of 11,328,000 of the slaves went to the Brazil's and Spain's colonies.
5) The headquarters for slave trading on the West coast of Africa.