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Prior to 1400 slavery existed in Africa and elsewhere around the world
- Captured during times of the war
- Slavves were part of the community - they were servants rather than property
- " A slave who knows how to serve inherits master's property" -
Europeans begin contacts with the people of West Africa
- Portugals Prince Henry was looking for a sea route to india
- They wanted to make a map of Africa
- Wanted Gold
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Europeans brought few slaves to Europe
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Barthomeu Dias rounded the southern tip of Africa
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Vasco de Gama followed Barthomeu Dias' route and made it to india
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Begin to bring slaves to Americas
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King Affonso said to the Portugese government,
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A trade network, with people as cargo linked Africa, Europe, and the Americas
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talk of abolition by european thinkers
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Height of the ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
- Europeans were bringing up to 60,000 Africans a year to the Americas. Supply of Slaves
- Europeans relied on slave local African rulers to supply them with slavevs
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British set up Sierra Leone as a colony for freed slaves to return to Africa
-Liberia was organized after by slaves from the United Slaves
Became an independent country in 1847 -
Britian outlawed the slave trade, but the ban did not outlaw slavery
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Britian banned slavery in its empire
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- Late 1800's: Mir ambo built a strong empire in Tanzania. Why was he able to do this? It was a very strong nation because of the slave trade.
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US Civil war partially caused by slavery
