Moors• Moorish Conquest

& Control of Spain & Portugal 956-1492

• Trade between Northern Africa & Europe

• Use of Slaves in Iberian Peninsula

Portuguese Slave Trade

• Portugal explored West Coast of Africa

• Established commercial trading post on Islands off coast of Africa--these will become Holding Factories

• Goree Island

Slave Wars

• Dutch, British & French compete with Portuguese for control of slave trade.

• African Ethnic Groups begin wars to conquer territory & enslave enemies.

Bight of Benin

•between 1711-1810 about 1 million people were captured along the Bight of Benin

Bight of Benin

•between 1711-1810 about 1 million people were captured along the Bight of Benin

Goree Island

• Off Coast of Senegal

• slave port for 300 years

• exported over 10% of all slaves taken to the Americas

• 17 battles fought to control Goree

In the Fortress

• Slaves were branded

• manacled to the walls

• fed on bread & water

• held for 2 weeks to 2 months

Middle Passage

• 11-20 million slaves survive the journey to the Americas

• no one knows how many died being captured & transported--60 million?

Slave warehouses

• Once slaves reached Caribbean they were sold to plantations or held in warehouses to be shipped to North or South America

BritishCaribbean

FrenchCaribbean

SpanishAmerica

Dutch &Danish WestIndies

United States

Brazil

Where were they sent?

33%

5%7% 12%

20%

22%

In South America

• Coffee , tobacco, & sugar plantations

• mining for

• gold, silver & gem

In Caribbean

• Sugar Plantations• Europe’s craving for sugar was the # 1

reason for the transatlantic slave trade

Slave Revolts

Revolts on board ships

• 240 known slave revolts that took place during the Middle Passage

• Amistad revolt in July of 1839 was one of few successful revolts

• Portrait of Cinque

Slave revolts in colonies

• 250 recorded incidents of slave rebellions in the Americas

• Stono Rebellion in South Carolina, 1739

• Haiti, 1793

St. John Slave Revolt, 1733• Danish Caribbean Island• 1st Major Slave Revolt

What caused the revolt?

Abolition Movement

Olaudah EquianoHis autobiography inspired others to start abolition movement

English Abolitionism• Lead by Granville

Sharp• English abolished

slavery in 1830• took leading role in

stopping transatlantic slave trade

Brazilian Antislave Movement

• Lead by Joaquim Nabuco & Antonio Alves

• Law of the Womb in 1871

• Golden Law in 1888

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How was African Slave Trade Different from previous forms of Slavery?

• Racism

• Hereditary

• Slave were property, not people> No legal protections.

Impact of slave trade• 10-15 million dead• suffering of the

enslaved people• European power &

wealth• weakened Africa,

allowing Europe to conquer Continent in 19th century

• Diaspora