The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Horrific and world-altering episode in African history
10-15,000,000
Quest for trade: gold & spices
chattel slavery
Triangle trade
Middle Passage
Olaudah Equiano
Toussaint L’Ouverture
Industrial Revolution:flexible & mobile labor force
Abolishing slavery
Enormous negative effects
• increase in violence
• drain of people
• economy increasingly reliant on slavery