The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Horrific and world-altering episode in African history

10-15,000,000

Quest for trade: gold & spices

chattel slavery

Triangle trade

Middle Passage

Olaudah Equiano

Toussaint L’Ouverture

Industrial Revolution:flexible & mobile labor force

Abolishing slavery

Enormous negative effects

• increase in violence

• drain of people

• economy increasingly reliant on slavery