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Period: Sep 2, 1390 to Aug 12, 1399
Trade in Human Beings
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" -
Period: Jan 1, 1400 to Jan 1, 1450
Exploring the Coast of Africa
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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Period: Jan 13, 1400 to Sep 16, 1499
Trade in Human Beings, cont'd
Europeans brought few slaves to Europe -
Jan 2, 1488
Exoloring the coast of Africa
Barthomeu Dias rounded the southern tip of Africa -
Jan 1, 1498
Exploring the Coast of Africa
Vasco de Gama followed Barthomeu Dias' route and made it to india -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to Sep 14, 1550
Trade in Human Beings, cont'd
Begin to bring slaves to Americas -
Sep 22, 1526
Ending the Slave Trade
King Affonso said to the Portugese government,
- "It is our will that in these kingdoms there should not be any trade of slaves nor outlet for them. -
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Trade in Human Beings, cont'd
A trade network, with people as cargo linked Africa, Europe, and the Americas -
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Ending the slave trade
talk of abolition by european thinkers -
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Trade in Human Beings, cont'd
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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Sierra Leone and Liberia
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 -
Ending the Slave trade.
Britian outlawed the slave trade, but the ban did not outlaw slavery -
Ending the Slave trade
Britian banned slavery in its empire -
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Effects of the slave trade
- 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. -
Ending the slavev trade
US Civil war partially caused by slavery
