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1450-1867
Essential Questions
• What motivated Europeans to take Africans?
Portugal: Foundation of Slave Trade in
Africa
• Starts transporting slaves 50 years prior to
Columbus
• Prince Henry= goes to African coast for gold as
well as to chart sea route to Asia in 1442
– Gold dust is found and 10 Africans are transported
to Portugal in 1442.
– Trading port is established on Guinea coast (gold,
ivory and eventually the export of slaves)
Differences between Slavery in the Old
and New Worlds
• Africa Americas
– Slavery is NOT •Slavery is forced and
hereditary herditary
•Initially, all Africans in
– Existed in Africa for
the New World are
1,000s of years
slaves
What motivations to take Africans?
Dominance or Greed?
• “Captured by sword,
partly by means”- John
Hawkins
• Interest in Africans:
experience in farming,
strangers in a strange
land, less likely to flee
Slaves in Europe