2012
Africa
15th – 18th Centuries
Portuguese navigators had to find new routes to Asia.
Vasco da Gama
Establishment of
Sugar Plantations on
Islands…
By 1500 the Portuguese had
transported approximately 81,000
slaves to these various markets.
Canary
Islands
Madeira Islands
Cape Verde
Sugar Plantations on the Islands
needed workers…
The era of European slave trading
was about to begin...
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Explores first wanted gold
from Africa…..
Video on Slave Ship
(Discovery Education)
After completing assignments continue
with presentation.
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15 Million of Africa’s strongest & healthiest men
and women robbed from the continent!
Wealth of labor taken from Africa to the Americas.
Slave trade destroyed the incentive to develop cash
crops and a agrarian revolution occurring in other
parts of the world.
Lack of industrial revolution & other sources of
wealth- created lack of economic development in
Africa. Lack of development of infrastructure;
electricity, water systems…
Slave Wars/tribal wars weakened governments.
Africa's ability to defend itself was seriously
compromised.
Abolitionist
Movement
Begin!
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1750- Abolition MovementChurch of England
1807- End of “Slave Trade”
1808- illegal for British Ship
to be involved in slave trade
1833- Britain Abolished
Slavery
1863- U.S. Abolished Slavery
1888- Brazil Abolished
Slavery
IDEAS OF LIBERTYFRENCH REVOLUTION
SLAVE REBELLIONS
CHURCH OF ENGLANDSERMONS AGAINST SLAVERY
MONEY &
INDUSTRIALIZATION
1850- EXPLORES HAD
MAPPED MOST OF AFRICA
DAVID LIVINGSTONE
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For Europeans, these
treaties meant that
Africans had signed
away their
sovereignties (rights);
but for Africans, the
treaties were merely
diplomatic and
commercial friendship
treaties.
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After discovering that
they had in effect been
defrauded by the
European powers
African rulers
organized militarily to
resist the seizure of
their lands and the
imposition of colonial
domination.