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AT TIME OF PRINCE
HENRY- 1430-1460
HE SPONSORED EXPEDITIONS OF
DISCOVERY THE DOWN THE
WESTERN COAST OF AFRICA.

The caravel was developed in about 1450, under the sponsorship of
Prince Henry the Navigator

Vasco da Gama-
First to sail to India around Cape of Good
Hope- 1498

Establishment of
Sugar Plantations on
Islands…
By 1500 the Portuguese had transported approximately 81,000 slaves to these various markets.
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Canary Islands
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Madeira Islands
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Cape Verde
Sugar Plantations on the Islands needed workers…
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Explores first wanted gold from Africa…..later for work on plantations… slave trade
The era of European slave trading begins...

Video on Slave Ship
(Discovery Education)
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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…
Wars/tribal wars weakened governments.
Africa's ability to defend itself was seriously compromised.

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1750- Abolition Movement-
Church 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 LIBERTY-
FRENCH REVOLUTION
SLAVE REBELLIONS

CHURCH OF ENGLAND-
SERMONS AGAINST SLAVERY
INDUSTRIALIZATION
REVOLUTION

1850- EXPLORES HAD
MAPPED MOST OF AFRICA
DAVID LIVINGSTONE