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The Transatlantic Slave Trade - Coggle Diagram
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
African Civilisations before the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Mansa Musa
Strong Trade and wealthy economy
Impressive towns and cities
Effective and stable government
Fair and effective law and order
Tolerant attitude to religion
Powerful and armed forces
How and why did the Transatlantic Slave Trade start?
The Portuguese
Slave labour in gold mines, African exports-gold, palm oil etc. and 1st to use slave labour in gold mines and sugar plantations
John Hawkins
1st Englishman to deport Africans from Africa for sail to the West Indies.
West African rulers
Exchanged prisoners of slavery of war for guns.
Midddlemen
Attack Africans working in fields nd march them up to the coast
Royal African Company (RAC)
Captured Africans- Held in forts. Remained there for months. On board European merchant ships including RAC. RAC transported slaves
King Charles II
Encouraged expansion of slave trade. Ploughed money into the slave trade.
London merchants
Developed their business. London was 1 of the main trading centres.
Slave Trade Triangle
West Europe
Manufactured goods- Guns, Cutlery, Pottery etc
West Africa
Slaves and Ivory
America/ West Indies
Raw materials- Sugar, flour, palm oil etc
Middle Passage
West Africa to America
Whipping
Throwing Slaves off the ship sometimes chained in a line
Slaves chained to floor below deck
Cramped up below deck
Ate grewl in their hands no cutlery
Sale- Creamed up to make the Slaves look shiny for auction
Plantations
Used drumming to vent their feelings in a non-violent way
Salve Masters deliberately tried to break up families
Field labour- Worked 18hrs
Abolition of the Slave Trade
Real artefacts- Visual evidence
Prime Minister Williams Pitt's speech
Equiano's Memoirs
The Slave rebellion at St. Dominique
The Enlightenment
Petitions to Parliament
The secret Underground Railroad
The case of the Slave ship- Zong
Wedgwood Pottery