the African Slave Trade from 1450 to 1850

Look at two to three key events in the African Slave Trade from 1450 to 1850 and tell me why they were important.

History

Paper instructions:
Slavery is one of the oldest of human institutions and virtually every premodern state in history depended on it to some extent. The African slave trade must be

seen as part of the larger commercial system of Atlantic trade between Europe, Africa, and European colonies in North and South America and the Caribbean. The system

was directed to exploitation of the New World, and thus, the slave trade grew not from racist principles (although they were used as justification), but from colonial

economic needs. The major sources for slaves were the Kongo–Angola region and the Guinea coast. Well over twelve million persons were lost to Africa through the

Atlantic trade. Taken as a whole, the slave trade varied in extent quite sharply from period to period, with its peak in the eighteenth century and its demise in the

nineteenth. The effects of the slave trade on Africa are not easy to assess. It appears that slavery was a result, not a cause, of regional instability and change—

increased warfare meant increased prisoners to be enslaved and sold off.

Your SLP assignment for Module 1 is look at two to three key events in the African Slave Trade from 1450 to 1850 and tell me why they were important.

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