Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Slave Trade
- Before Europeans
- Slave trade happened mainly
between 1400s and 1700s
- Ancient Greece
- Mines, farms, house servants
- Romans
- More slaves than Romans!
- Abbasid Empire
- In 600s, they enslaved black Africans
- Muslim traders sold 5000 people every
year as slaves in Europe or Middle East
- West African tribes
- With Europeans
- Portuguese went to Africa in 1415
- Began trading for slaves to work on plantations
in Canary Islands or Madiera
- Spanish set up plantations in West Indies after1492
- Portuguese began selling slaves to spanish
- By 1600s, British, Dutch and French set up slave
posts in Africa to sell slaves to Spanish
- Britain dominated slave trade and owned
plantations in West Indies and America
- At least 11 million people died on travel across Atlantic
- Conditions
- Africans were taken from their villages and
sold to white European slave traders
- 10% of slaves died in first year of slavery
- Some slaves protested
- Break tools
- Work slowly
- Escape
- The Underground Railroad smuggled escaped
slaves to Northern States of America or Canada
- William Wilberforce and Granville Sharp protested in courts and parliament
- In 1807, slavery was banned in British Empire
- Keeping slaves was banned in 1833
- Slaves were paid
- No-one under 6 was allowed to be a slave
- If they were already a slave, they only worked for 4 years
- Part free, part slave