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Source 1 - Heinemann History Black Peoples of the Americas, Source 3 -…
Source 1 - Heinemann History Black Peoples of the Americas
key ideas
Society pretty much collapsed as kings became kidnappers
Crimes much harsher as if someone committed a crime the punishment was slavery
Africa became a harsh place – continuous warfare, raiding, killing led to famine
Poor crops resulted and influenced the economy as people were forced to migrate out of fear
Poor soil meant no people inhabiting it which meant a safe to live
Weapons from Europe were introduced to Africa and advanced the slave trade
Trade in Africa decreased as Europe provided huge quantities of goods
Small tribes in Africa attacked each other for slaves to sell for weapons to then protect themselves from being raided
Europeans believed it was their right to enslave the black people because they felt they were more advanced (weapons and ways of life) and because they were Christians and black people did not believe in Christ, “god was on their side”
Source 3 - Understanding the long-run effects of Africa’s slave trades
To what extent do you agree that the long-term negatives outweighed the positives during the slave trade and how did they impact Africa
Source 2 - Implications of the slave trade for African societies
key ideas
It has been estimated that over 10 million Africans were transported across the Atlantic in the 18th century.
Between the 1680s and the 1780s the value of Africa's Atlantic trade rose six-fold. At its peak trade was worth £47 million.
The impact of the gun trade
The mass introduction of firearms was the single most significant technological innovation brought by Europeans to West Africa
Twenty million guns were imported to Africa in the second half of the 18th century
Increased their drive to capture and sell slaves. The new availability of guns was a direct consequence of the slave trade.
Effects on the Kongo Kingdom
At first, the only slaves to be traded were prisoners of war and criminals
In 1526, an effort to end the trade was pursued, King Afonso requested the removal of all Portuguese merchants
However, the Portuguese demand for slaves, the competition for the throne within the kingdom, among others, all resulted in a dramatic and uncontrollable increase in the slave capture and raiding throughout the kingdom
Figure 2 (The relationship between slave exports (normalised by a country’s land area) and real per capita GDP in 2000. Both variables are measured on a log scale.
shown in Figure 2 is that the parts of Africa from which the largest number of
slaves were taken were initially the most underdeveloped
Had the slave trades not occurred, Africa would not be the most underdeveloped region of the world and it would have a similar level of development to Latin America or Asia.