Map Of Africa During Slave Trade

Two french travelers from the 18th century conrad malte brun and james gates percival traveled around africa during the time of the slave trade and documented the tribes in africa.

Map of africa during slave trade. Various forms of slavery were practiced in diverse ways in different communities of west africa prior to european trade. The prerequisites for. Old world slave trade routes in the atlantic before 1759. Initially they purchased slaves from islamic traders who had established inland trading routes to the sub sahara region.

These goods are labeled on the map but are not however shown actually being traded. An important part of the triangular trade were the goods traded such as tobacco coffee cotton sugar mining and rice. Countries and regions in the atlantic world where slave voyages were organized by share of captives carried off from africa. Overview of the slave trade out of africa 1500 1900.

A map of africa today is shown. Major slave trading regions of africa 15th 19th centuries the slave coast is a historical name formerly used for that part of coastal west africa along the bight of benin that is located between the volta river and the lagos lagoon. Trans saharan red sea arab indian ocean and trans atlantic. There is a key in the bottom left corner that labels each good.

The portuguese began dealing in black slaves from africa in the 15th century. Homann heirs map of the local slave trade in west africa from senegal and cape blanc to guinea the cacongo and barbela rivers and ghana lake on the niger river as far as regio auri 1743. The sub sahara region not including south africa is where the european slave traders were active. Even though slavery did exist it was not nearly as prevalent within most west african societies that were not islamic before the trans atlantic slave trade.

The slave coast is still marked on this c. Nunn suggests his estimates based on shipping and census data probably represent about 80 of the total number. Four hundred years ago the first slave ship docked on north american shores launching a chapter of the trans atlantic trade that saw more than 12 5 million people kidnapped from africa and sold. 1914 map by john bartholomew co.

According to canadian economic historian nathan nunn by 1800 africa s population was half of what it would have been had the slave trades not occurred. Migration of sugar cultivation from asia into the atlantic. Major regions and ports involved in the trans atlantic slave trade all years. Wind and ocean currents of the atlantic basins.

The atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved african people mainly to the americas the slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its middle passage and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries the vast majority of those who were enslaved and transported in the transatlantic slave trade were people from central and west africa who had been sold by other west africans or by half european merchant princes.