African Slave trade

Triangular Trade: Europe to Africa

Europeans sold pots, pans, guns, alcohol and horses to the Africans for slaves

Triangular Trade: America to Europe

Europeans take products produced using slave labor in the Americas to be sold in Europe; sugar, rum, cotton, tobacco, coffee.

Triangular Trade: Africa to the America's

Europeans take slaves from Africa to the Americas (South America, Central America, Caribbean and North America) to be sold to plantations for a profit.

Slavery Today (10 Important facts)

• Slavery: forced to work without pay under threat of violence and unable to walk away. • 27 million slaves in the world today. • Slavery is not legal anywhere but happens everywhere. • The majority of slaves can be found in India and in African countries. • At least 14,500 slaves are trafficked into the US each year. • Slaves work in fields, brothels, homes, mines, restaurants - anywhere slave owners can feed their greed. • Human trafficking is the modern-day slave trade. • $90 is the average cost of a human slave around the world. • Slave owners use many terms to avoid the word slavery: debt bondage, bonded labor, attached labor, restavec, forced labor, indentured servitude, and human trafficking. • It is possible to end slavery in 25 years. Everyone has a role to play - government, business, international organizations, consumers, YOU.

Atlantic Slave Trade:

• Slaves were property (chattels) • Between 8-16 million people were stolen away from Africa from about 1441 - c 1870

Economics of Slavery:

1) Large amounts of land had been seized from Native Americans and were not being used. 2) Europeans were looking for somewhere to invest their money. 3) Very cheap labor was available in the form of enslaved Africans.

Human Rights:

All human rights are indivisible, whether they are civil and political rights, such as the right to life, equality before the law and freedom of expression; economic, social and cultural rights, such as the rights to work, social security and education , or collective rights, such as the rights to development and self-determination, are indivisible, interrelated and interdependent.

Slavery:

Forced to work without pay under threat of violence, unable to walk away. The slave is the property of another person (chattle)

Slavery Before 1441:

Forms of slavery existed in Africa before Europeans arrived. Some countries in the African continent had their own systems of slavery. People were enslaved • as punishment for a crime • payment for a debt or • as a prisoner of war However, African slavery was different from what was to come later. • Most enslaved people were captured in battle. • In some kingdoms, temporary slavery was a punishment for some crimes. • In some cases, enslaved people could work to buy their freedom. • Children of enslaved people did not automatically become slaves.

Loose Pack vsTight Pack

How many slaves are packed onto a ship. With unsanitary conditions tight packed shipped could lose a higher number of slaves to disease and death.

High Profit Margins:

Slaves purchased from African slave owners and then sold to American businesses for a profit. Crammed on to slave ships to maximize yield. Many died due to starvation and illness due to unsanitary conditions.