Atlantic Slave Trade

AMSCO: Modern World History

Trans Saharan

Trans Saharan

________ slave trade= brought Africans to the Mediterranean.

African slave trade

________ hurt smaller societies within Africa.

Slave status

________ inherited; little hope of freedom.

Slave trade

________ drew mainly on the societies of West Africa.

Europeans

________ dropped like flies when entering Africas interior because not immune to tropical diseases.

African merchants

Step 1: ________ and political elites captured slaves and brought them to the coast of West Africa.

Africans

East African slave trade brought ________ to the Middle East and Indian Ocean area.

Slavery

________ became the source of labor because nobody would work under these conditions for the small wages being offered.

Slave trade

________ did not help Africa economically because: African merchants and elites who sold the slaves kept the money for themselves and did not invest in their African societies.

Africa

________ primary source of slave labor for the colonies through a process of elimination.

Step 1

African merchants and political elites captured slaves and brought them to the coast of West Africa

Step 2

Europeans waited on the coast (in ships or fortified settlements) to purchase these slaves

Step 3

Europeans brought slaves to the Americas and sold them at slave auctions to plantation owners

Slave trade = did not help Africa economically because

African merchants and elites who sold the slaves kept the money for themselves and did not invest in their African societies