Africa and Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Chapter 20
Part I: The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Portuguese in Africa
►Established _________________________
________________- gold trade- most important
Not powerful enough to _______________________ on Africans
Most forts were established only after _____________________ of local leaders
►Portuguese traded for: __________________________________________________
►_____________= basis for contact between Africans and Portuguese
►_____________________________ went to Benin, Kongo, and other places
Kongo= King _____________________________ converts his entire kingdom
_____________________ of his subjects  ________________ on Portuguese
How they saw each other
►Africans viewed Portuguese as _____________ but _____________________ them
into their world
►_____________ saw Africans as savages who could be ________________________
European Colonies in Africa
►Colonies ______________, but with lots of _________________ work
►By ________________, Dutch, French, English and others begin to get involved
►By 1600, ________________________________________ all commerce
Statistics
►Between 1450 and 1750, ___________________ Africans transported across Atlantic
10-20% ______________________________
10-11 _______________ survived passage
Rate of transport _____________________________ over time
____________transported between ___________ and ___________
►High volume necessary due to _____________________ and ___________________
►Rates of trade reflect changing __________________________________ situation in
the New World
►Slave trade with __________________________ continues
___________________________ transported between 1450 and 1750
►Wars increase in Africa as both ____________________________ of slave trade
Demographics
►Trade with ___________________ tended to focus on _________________________
►____________________ slave trade tended to focus on _________________
►African population _____________________ of what it would have been without
slave trade by 1750
Organization
►_________________controlled up until 1630
►____________ seized control of ________________ in 1637, became major
competitors
►1660 English charter ________________________ to engage in slave trade
►________________________, _________________ becomes a major trader
►Both ___________________________ involved in slave trade
►Not any more __________________ than any other trade of its time
►Part of _______________________
►Drew African economy into ______________________
►Resulted in African economies becoming _________________________ with Europe