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Unit 1 – Africa
Lesson 4 – European Slave Trade, and
European Invasion
What is Freedom?
• What does it look like?
• How do you know if you have it?
• Why is it wrong to NOT have it?
What is Slavery?
• What does it look like?
• What does it feel like?
• Why is it wrong?
Portuguese Arrival to Africa
• 1400s – Europeans were looking for a passage
to Asia by sea
• Africa was in the way
• Portugal founded colonies
• Purpose: fueling depots
• Grew into trading posts
Portuguese Colonial Empire
Slave Trade
• Slavery was not new to Africa
• Africans often captured other
Africans after battle
• Portuguese introduced a new
use for captured Africans: ship
Africans to work the American
plantations
Map work
Using the next two maps, answer the following
question:
1. From what region of Africa most slaves come?
Map work
• Using the next map, answer the following
question:
2. To what two regions of the Americas did most
Africans end up?
Map work
• Using the next map, answer the following
question:
3. What years had the most movement of
Africans to the Americas?
Pie Graph work
• Using the next graph, answer the following
question:
4. Which 3 nations captured and transported
the most slaves to the Americas?
EUROPEAN INVADERS
How did Africans get to the Americas?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Captured
Transported to coast
Transferred to ship
THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
Sold at an auction
THE CAPTURE
• Africans were
captured, brought to
coastal towns
• Marched in chains
and ropes for
thousands of miles;
sometimes iron
bands on neck
• Held in small pens for
departure
THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
• Definition: the transfer to the Americas from Africa
on slave ships
• Hundreds were packed into ships as cargo
• Journey was 3 weeks to 3 months
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• Disease rampant;
mistreatment horrible
• Floating coffins –
sometimes half would
die on voyage
• Suicide, mutinies,
death
Book Work
Look at the graphs on p. 96.
5. What was the 110 year time span when the
greatest number of Africans were forced into
slavery?
Book Work
6. Look at the last paragraph on p. 94 and the
next on p. 95. What is meant by ABOLITION?
7. When did Britain end the slave trade?
IMPACT OF SLAVE TRADE
Read p. 95, paragraphs 3-4 (starting “in some parts…)
to show the impact dealing with:
8. Wars and tensions:
9. Economic life:
10.The harvest:
Then read the paragraph on p. 96 on the bottom right.
11. How did Liberia and Sierra Leone form?
Your Opinion
9. Would you have the guts to be an
abolitionist? Imagine you are a senator from
South Carolina. What pressures would you have
to NOT ever end slavery?
EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM
Look at p. 95, paragraph #2
10. Why did the Slave Trade become less popular
as Europeans industrialized in the 1800s?