Slave Trade Notes!
Slavery (previously)
Indentured Servants
Part of the Family (inherited land)
Seen as Human
Not bought: Taken in war or self-selected
African Diaspora –Spreading out
Began in the 1400s beginning of CHATTEL SLAVERY
Colonized Americas needed labor
Rationalized/accepted slavery
Out of sight
Gave them civilization
Running out of Native Americans
Social Darwinism
Who supplies slaves?
Africans (take or be taken)
Paid in guns (made them harder to resist)
Liquor (led to aggression)
Warlords get rich selling others
Buy more guns!
The End?
1700s abolition movement begins
Effects?
Too many young men taken
Whole societies died
No one left to plant or build
Sierra Lione: West Africa colony for freed slaves
Liberia: Freed blacks in the US organized
Independence in 1847
Encouraged migration back