Day 16 Africa / Atlantic Slave Trade

• Warm Up: Chant de Elegua

• Extra Credit: Movie: Amistad, Episode I Roots

• Homework:132-136

West Africa

• Kingdom of Benin – craftsmen creating sophisticated bronze structures

Mali 1200-1450

• Expanded trade to Atlantic

• Mansa Musa (King of Kings) wealthiest ruler of his day

Trade

• Songhai- African Trade included Ivory, Gold, and Salt

• Trans Saharan trade with Muslims

Causes of Atlantic Slave Trade

• Slavery and indentured servitude in Africa

• 1400’s European demand low w/ discovery demand explodes

• Small Pox destroys local population

• Inability to escape

Trade• Grew into a massive

enterprise• 40% in Brazil as compared to

4% in the Americas• African Merchants

Cooperation• Triangular Trade- Manufactured Goods from

Europe- Middle Passage (slaves)- Sugar, Rum, Cotton, Tobacco

from the Americas

Inhumane Treatment• Hold below Deck

(20% die)• Plantations, Mines or

servants• Auctions• Cultural Resistance

Olaudah Equino

“ I was soon put down under the decks, and there I received such a salutation in my nostrils as I never experienced in my life; so that, with the loathsome stench, and crying together, I became so sick and low that I was not able to eat…but soon, to my grief, two of the white men offered me eatables; and on my refusing to eat, one of them held me fast by the hands, and laid me across…the windlass, while the other flogged me severely”

Impact• Resistance and Rebellion

• Draining of Africa’s human assets

• Economic growth of region

African Influence in Caribe

• Religion (Santeria, Voodoo)

• Capueto (Brazil)• Words (fulano,

mengana)• Influences on food and

Music

Summary Questions

1) What is the triangular trade?

2) What is the middle passage?

3) Why were Africans viewed as ideal laborers?

4) Name one product for each leg of the Triangular trade?