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Transatlantic Slave Trade
Africa
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Sociology
Undergraduate 2
11/11/2009

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Who established trading posts along the West African Coast in the late 1400's and 1500's
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Portuguese
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Who founded the first permanent European settlement in 1652? (It was in South Africa, thus setting the foundation for apartheid)
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Dutch
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Extent of Slave Trade
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10-15 million people taken from Africa between 1500 and 1870, Several million more people killed in slave raids and forced marches to the coast. Most bought from African slave traders, at least 15% died in horrible conditions aboard slave ships.
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Extent of Slave Trade
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10-15 million people taken from Africa between 1500 and 1870, Several million more people killed in slave raids and forced marches to the coast. Most bought from African slave traders, at least 15% died in horrible conditions aboard slave ships.
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Extent of Slave Trade
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10-15 million people taken from Africa between 1500 and 1870, Several million more people killed in slave raids and forced marches to the coast. Most bought from African slave traders, at least 15% died in horrible conditions aboard slave ships.
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Impacts of Slavery included forcible removal of young males and females from the interior of Africa and...
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Provided labor in North and South america for plantations, supplied 10-20% of labor for Industrial revolutions in Europe and US, Enriched slave traders and elites that owned slaves, violence devested homes, crops and herds. All of which devestated interior african societies.
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African Kingdoms and their relation to slave trade:
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West coast kingdoms profited from slave trade and their economies became focused on raiding for slave trade. Interior kingdoms however opposed slave trade and fought with europeans and coastal kingdoms. Most kingdoms survived until the late 1800's.
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