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Africans & The Atlantic Slave Trade

Africans & The Atlantic Slave Trade.

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Africans & The Atlantic Slave Trade

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  1. Africans & The Atlantic Slave Trade

  2. Portuguese - interior trade - especially gold-Generally with local consent-El MinaMissionaries followed –gain Christian converts Mozambique - gold trade Some Portuguese settle in AfricaP – set the common European pattern of trading stations w/ the slave trade as central component

  3. 1450-1850 - 12 million Africans sent across Atlantic • 10-11 survive • Primarily young men for hard agric/mine labor • 18th century – 80% of total trade • Muslim world slave trade • Trans-Saharan, Red Sea, East Africa • Mostly women • 3 million slaves traded

  4. African Society • Slave Lives • Millions killed • Families destroyed • Africans in the Americas • Plantation system • American Slave Societies • Miscegenation

  5. The Dutch boot the Portuguese • Seize El Mina - 1630 • English get involved - 1660s • French join in on the action - 18th century • Dahomey - Royal monopoly on flow of slaves • Economic significance? • Same profits as other trade • Value tied up with plantation and mining economy • Definitely ties Africa to global economy

  6. African societies leading up to the slave trade • West & Central Africa was made up of small, volatile states • Warfare endemic – societal emphasis on military • Europeans use hostilities to their advantage – slaves for guns influence • African states closest to the coast dominate b/c of European weapons

  7. East Africa and the Sudan • Swahili trading towns - ivory, gold slaves to Middle East • Northern Savanna - new Islamization • Songhay breaks up in 1500s • Successor states • Muslim Hausa states in northern Nigeria • Muslim reform movements began 1770s • Usuman Dan Fodio - 1804 - Hausa states

  8. Capetown – South Africa • Dutch colony – Boers - 1652 • Plantation estates worked by slaves • Wars with San, Khoikhoi • 1760s warring w/ Bantu • 1795 - Britain occupies colony • 1815 – GB takes possession • After 1834 - Afrikaners push beyond boundaries

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