APWH
Coach Mattox
Chapter 21 Study Questions
Africa and Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
What was the “factory” system established by the Portuguese?
What was the most important Portuguese “factory?”
Discuss Portuguese influence in Africa outside of the trading cities.
How did the Portuguese gain trading influence with the kingdoms of Mali and
Songhai?
5. Discuss the role of the lancados.
6. What success did the Portuguese have in the Kongo region?
7. Who was Nzinga Mvemba?
8. What was Luanda?
9. What colony sprang from Luanda?
10. In addition to commercial and military exchanges, what other area were the
Portuguese active in?
11. Which European nations followed Portugal in engaging African civilizations
commercially?
12. What trade commodity over time became the most lucrative for the Portuguese?
13. How did they most commonly acquire slaves?
14. Though arguable, how many Africans does the author suggest were taken to the
Americas?
15. Which century saw the most slaves taken to the Americas?
16. Why was there such a high volume of slaves taken to the Caribbean and Latin
America, especially Brazil?
17. Why did slave populations grow in the southern United States?
18. Where did the highest numbers of slaves go?
19. What region had the second highest number?
20. Who besides the Europeans were also actively engaged in the slave trade?
21. What was the demographic impact of the African slave trade on the sub-Saharan
region?
22. Why was the Royal African Company, and why was it established?
23. What was an Indies Piece?
24. Discuss the arguments concerning the profitability of the slave trade.
25. Discuss the components of the Triangular Trade Network.
26. What is “Chattel slavery?”
27. What was the attitude toward slavery on the part of African rulers and leaders?
28. What was the view of the Sudanese Muslims towards slavery?
29. How did the slave trade affect African state formation?
30. Discuss the Asante Kingdom.
31. How did the Kingdom of Dahomey differ in its approach to European influence?
32. Discuss developments on the East African coast after the arrival of the
Europeans?
33. Who was Usuman Dan Fodio and what is he noted for?
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34. What region of Africa had little interaction with the slaving patterns of Africa?
35. What group settled the southern tip of Africa?
36. Why did they settle there?
37. What was the Great Trek?
38. Who was Shaka?
39. What was the Mfecane and how did it affect southern Africa?
40. What was the Middle Passage?
41. What was a salt-water slave?
42. What was the social structure of American slave-based societies?
43. What were obeah, candomble, and Vodun?
44. What was Palmares?
45. Why did the slave trade come to an end?
46. Who was responsible as the driving force in the British Parliament to bring about
the end of the slave trade?
Outside the text
47. Using the Internet or other valid historical references, discuss the concept of
“Diaspora.” How does it apply to Africa during this era?