WHY DID EUROPEANS EXPLORE THE COAST OF

AFRICA?2012Africa

15th – 18th Centuries

Turks closed off trade routes to Asia!

Prince Henry The Navigator

Portuguese navigators had to find new routes to Asia.

Vasco da Gama

Establishment of Sugar Plantations on Islands…

By 1500 the Portuguese had transported approximately 81,000 slaves to these various markets.

Canary IslandsMadeira IslandsCape Verde

Sugar Plantations on the Islands needed workers…

The era of European slave trading was about to begin...

Explores first wanted gold from Africa…..

READ ARTICLES ON SLAVE TRADE & VIDEO

Video on Slave Ship(Discovery Education)

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What were the effects of the Slave Trade to Africa?

Devastation to African Culture and African People

15 Million of Africa’s strongest & healthiest men and women robbed from the continent!

Wealth of labor taken from Africa to the Americas. Slave trade destroyed the incentive to develop cash

crops and a agrarian revolution occurring in other parts of the world.

Lack of industrial revolution & other sources of wealth- created lack of economic development in Africa. Lack of development of infrastructure; electricity, water systems…

Slave Wars/tribal wars weakened governments. Africa's ability to defend itself was seriously

compromised.

Abolitionist Movement Begin!

1750- Abolition Movement- Church of England

1807- End of “Slave Trade”

1808- illegal for British Ship to be involved in slave trade

1833- Britain Abolished Slavery

1863- U.S. Abolished Slavery

1888- Brazil Abolished Slavery

What brought on Abolitionist movement?

IDEAS OF LIBERTY- FRENCH REVOLUTION

SLAVE REBELLIONS

Abolitionist movement

CHURCH OF ENGLAND- SERMONS AGAINST SLAVERY

MONEY & INDUSTRIALIZATION

Around the time slavery was ending, European explorers travel to the interior of Africa

1850- EXPLORES HAD MAPPED MOST OF AFRICA DAVID LIVINGSTONE

Era of the Treaties in Africa

For Europeans, these treaties meant that Africans had signed away their sovereignties (rights);

but for Africans, the treaties were merely diplomatic and commercial friendship treaties.

King Leopold of Belgium & the Congo

Chancellor of German EmpireOtto Van Bismark

Fight Against Colonialism

After discovering that they had in effect been defrauded by the European powers

African rulers organized militarily to resist the seizure of their lands and the imposition of colonial domination.

Age of Imperialism1850-1919

Ethiopia & Liberia were NOT colonized