5.5 - The Slave Trade and Its Impact on Africa

Mutinies

Revolts

How did the Atlantic slave trade affect colonial economies?

Slave labor made European colonies wealthy and more productive. Colonial industries became prosperous. Port cities in the Americas thrived.

Monopoly

The exclusive control of a business or industry

Plantations

The large estates run by an owner or an owner's overseer.

Middle Passage

The second leg where slaves were transpported to the Americas

Olaudah Equiano

A young 11-year-old boy was seized from his Nigerian village by slave traders.

Oyo Empire

Arose from successive waves of settlement by the Yoruba people of present-day Nigeria.

Why did the African Slave Trade expand?

As a result of European exploration and expansion, European traders arrived Africa and entered the slave trade. These merchants shipped tens of thousands of enslaved Africans to work on plantations in European colonies in the Americas.

Osei Tutu

An able military leader who won control of the trading city of Kumasi.

Afonso I

Early critic of the slave trade. Ruler of Kongo in west-central Africa.

Asante Kingdom

Emerged in the area occupied by present-day Ghana.

Why did so many enslaved Africans die during the Middle Passage?

Enslaved Africans were treated cruelly, chained and crammed tightly into ships. many died from disease and mistreatment.

How did the slave trade damage some African states, but help others?

Some African states lost so many people to slavery that they disappeared forever. Other African states participated in the slave trade and gained wealth that they used to increase their power and conquer weaker neighboring states.

Triangular Trade

The Atlantic slave trade formed one part of a three-legged international trade network

missionary

someone sent to do religious work in a territory or foreign country