Africa, the Unknown Continent

• Europeans only knew the parts of Africa that touched the Mediterranean sea

• North Africa flourished • Islam and Muslim followers

• Rest of Africa was fairly unknown • Sahara desert

• Europeans couldn’t sail down the coast line of Africa until the 15th c • Lacked the technology to navigate the winds

• Vasco de Gama sailed for Portugal• Credited with sailing around the tip of Africa

and on to India

Africa, the Unknown Africa, the Unknown ContinentContinent

• African warriors too strong for the European sailors to take over the land

• Sailing ships brought technology• Guns, cloth, kettles, iron and mirrors that

Kings wanted

• The Africans had PEOPLE- • Healthy and hardy people that could be

used to mine and grow crops in the place that the Europeans were calling the NEW WORLD

Slavery In AfricaSlavery In Africa

• Important part of Africa’s economy• Yearly West African Kings sold approx.

1,000 slaves to Arab traders

• Slaves came from the conquered and captured during warfare

• Wasn’t based on racial superiority or inferiority • This developed in the America

The Portuguese & the Slave The Portuguese & the Slave TradeTrade

• Gold led the Portuguese down coast of Africa

• Found that trade with the coastal Kings of Africa was more profitable• Included enslaved Africans that were rounded

up by the King’s armies• The Portuguese developed posts at

harbors on western coast of Africa• Ports held the slaves waiting for transport

• Most slaves traveled on the MIDDLE PASSAGE• Traveled to plantations by crossing the

Atlantic

Triangle TradeTriangle Trade

Slavery in the AmericasSlavery in the Americas

• 1400s-1800’s: 10 million + Africans made forced journey to the Americas

• In the beginning colonists treated African slaves like indentured servants• Could earn their freedom

• Laws later passed to support permanent enslavement• Children of slaves would now be slaves too• Change promoted racist idea that people

of African origin were inferior to whites

Off The Tee

What was an What was an indentured indentured

servant and how servant and how long were they long were they

expected to be in expected to be in servitude?servitude?

Off The Tee

How did this How did this Middle Passage Middle Passage

activity make you activity make you feel about the feel about the

process of process of transporting transporting

human cargo to human cargo to America?America?

In The HoleIn The Hole

What was What was the saddest the saddest part of the part of the

Middle Middle Passage?Passage?

Off The TeeHow were the How were the New England New England

colonies involved colonies involved in the Triangular in the Triangular

Trade?Trade?

In The Hole

Which of the 13 Which of the 13 colonies would colonies would you most like to you most like to

live in?live in?

Off The Tee

List any terms List any terms from the board from the board that you aren’t that you aren’t sure you could sure you could define if you define if you

had to?had to?

In The Hole

How do you How do you think you did think you did on the test? on the test? Did the study Did the study guide help?guide help?