WHY DID EUROPEANS EXPLORE THE COAST OF AFRICA? 2012 Africa 15 th – 18 th Centuries
Dec 15, 2015
Establishment of Sugar Plantations on Islands…
By 1500 the Portuguese had transported approximately 81,000 slaves to these various markets.
Canary IslandsMadeira IslandsCape Verde
Sugar Plantations on the Islands needed workers…
The era of European slave trading was about to begin...
Explores first wanted gold from Africa…..
READ ARTICLES ON SLAVE TRADE & VIDEO
Video on Slave Ship(Discovery Education)
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Devastation to African Culture and African People
15 Million of Africa’s strongest & healthiest men and women robbed from the continent!
Wealth of labor taken from Africa to the Americas. Slave trade destroyed the incentive to develop cash
crops and a agrarian revolution occurring in other parts of the world.
Lack of industrial revolution & other sources of wealth- created lack of economic development in Africa. Lack of development of infrastructure; electricity, water systems…
Slave Wars/tribal wars weakened governments. Africa's ability to defend itself was seriously
compromised.
Abolitionist Movement Begin!
1750- Abolition Movement- Church of England
1807- End of “Slave Trade”
1808- illegal for British Ship to be involved in slave trade
1833- Britain Abolished Slavery
1863- U.S. Abolished Slavery
1888- Brazil Abolished Slavery
Around the time slavery was ending, European explorers travel to the interior of Africa
1850- EXPLORES HAD MAPPED MOST OF AFRICA DAVID LIVINGSTONE
Era of the Treaties in Africa
For Europeans, these treaties meant that Africans had signed away their sovereignties (rights);
but for Africans, the treaties were merely diplomatic and commercial friendship treaties.
Fight Against Colonialism
After discovering that they had in effect been defrauded by the European powers
African rulers organized militarily to resist the seizure of their lands and the imposition of colonial domination.