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The Slave Trade
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History Mind Map on The Slave Trade, created by Charnanigan14 on 29/10/2013.
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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
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