Slave TradeIn Geography

Borui ZhuInstructor Dustin ParrottEnglish 201Date May 3, 2015

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Location

Route

West side of Africa.

No ports in very North or South Africa.

Most slaves came from mid part of Africa such as Gold coast.

“More slaves were carried from Africa to America during 18th century because of industrialization and lack of labors. “

“In 1502, Portuguese first came to Gold Cost and made economic transaction with local African. Then in 1650, an estimated 25,000 enslaved Africans had been taken to North Atlantic islands and nearly one hundred thousand to Sao Tome”

commercial environment

natural environment

lower cost

Trade Wind

Trade wind comes from south-east to north-west

Perfect time of slave trade is around August

Thank you!

Gavin Wright, Slavery and American Economic Development, Louisiana State University Press

David Eltis and David Richardson, Routes to Slavery, FRANK CASS

Johannes Postma, the Atlantic Slave Trade, GREENWOOD PRESS

Herbert S. Klein, the Atlantic Slave Trade, Cambridge University Press

Paul Finkelman and Joseph C. Miller, Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery, Volume 1, Macmillan Reference USA Simon & Schuster Macmillan

The Atlantic Slave Trade: Crash Course World History #24 Crash Course https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnV_MTFEGIY