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Europe Before Transatlantic Slavery


Understand social and cultural aspects of Europe to contextualize the impact of the transatlantic slave trade on this part of the continent.

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Africa before Trans- atlantic Enslavement

The history of Africa and African people does not begin nor end with transatlantic slavery. Understand what Africa was like and what the continent lost as a result of the trade.

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Plantation Life

Understand the harshness of daily life on the plantations, the oppression used to exert control, and the profits...

 

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Emancipation

Understand how the 1807 Abolition Act ended the British involvement in the slave trade but not slavery, how British women pushed for full...

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Trade and Commerce

Understand how the demand for luxury goods and the Industrial Revolution fuelled the transatlantic slave trade, and how the British...

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Resistance and Rebellion

Understand how the enslaved actively resisted and rebelled at every stage of oppression including uprisings on board ship, forming their own communities and maintaining cultural heritage.

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Legacies

Understand how the transatlantic slave trade shifted notions of race and cultural identity, fuelled racism and inequality, and...

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Atlantic Crossing

Understand how people were treated on the slave ships and the extent to which they suffered on the journey across the Atlantic Ocean...


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The Campaign for Abolition

Understand the forces that led to abolition, the resistance and rebellion on the part of the enslaved, and the...

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Diaspora

The transatlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration of people in history. Understand how this migration has affected societies, cultures and the world we live in today...

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The transatlantic slave trade was responsible for the forced migration of between 12 - 15 million people from Africa to the Western Hemisphere from the middle of the 15th century to the end of the 19th century. The trafficking of Africans by the major European countries during this period is sometimes referred to by African scholars as the Maafa ('great disaster' in Swahili). It's now considered a crime against humanity.

The slave trade not only led to the violent transportation overseas of millions of Africans but also to the deaths of many millions more. Nobody knows the total number of people who died during slave raiding and wars in Africa, during transportation and imprisonment, or in horrendous conditions during the so-called Middle Passage, the voyage from Africa to the Americas.

The kidnapping of Africans occurred mainly in the region that now stretches from Senegal to Angola. However, in the 19th century some enslaved Africans were also transported across the Atlantic from parts of eastern and south-eastern Africa. Read More...