Transatlantic Slave Trade

 Transatlantic Slave Trade

  • 400 years (15th century - 19th century)

  • Senegambia, Sierra Leone, Windward Coast, Gold Coast, Bight of Benin, Bight of Biafra, West Central Africa (Kongo and Angola)

  • W.E.B. Du Bois (Author)

  • Middle Passage

    • 12.4 million people

    • 2 million died

    • Brasil (41%)

    • USA (5%)

    • Rest (48%)

  • Olaudah Equiano (Author)

  • Prisoners of wars from other tribes, criminals, and poor members of society traded to pay off debts

  • Many were sold to Europeans by Africans

  • Chattel Slavery

  • Orlando Patterson (Author)

  • Yellow fever, malaria, smallpox, dysentery

  • Horrible treatment in the passage

  • Speculum Orum: Force one’s mouth open to force-feed them

  • Historian Marcus Rediker

  • Enslaved: centres the personhood

  • Free trade

  • South Carolina → Charleston

  • Atlantic Slave trade banned

    • 1807

    • 1808

  • 1833: England Abolishes Slavery

  • 1888: Brasil abolishes Slavery (Last ones)

  • Tran-Atlantic slave trade and the middle passage

  • All British colonies benefitted from slavery

  • Chattel = property

  • Slave resistance

  • Covert resistance: practice their own traditions

  • Overt resistance: owners worried more

  • Stono Rebellion: slaves stole weapons and killed whites

  • 1619: first slaves in Jamestown

  • Jonathan Edwards

  • George Whitefield

  • Impressment: where men were seized to fight for the naval ships


Timeline:

1619: First slaves in Jamestown

1807: Atlantic Slave trade banned

1808: Atlantic Slave trade banned

1833: England abolishes Slavery

1888: Brasil Abolishes Slavery

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