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Assignment

Watch the video The Atlantic Slave Trade: What too few textbooks told you and answer the questions

I. How does the video define slavery?

II. What are the two ways the video suggests the Atlantic slave trade differed from other slave systems in history.

III. What are the years of its occurrence? Get the instant assignment help.

IV. How/where did Portugal and Spain affect the beginning of the trade?

V. Why did the Europeans look to Africa for development of sugar cane and tobacco plantations? [Note: though we think in the United States of cotton in connection with slavery, it is not important until after the development of the cotton gin in the late 1700s.]

VI. What are the forms of slavery that existed in Africa according to the video?

VII. How did those in power in African societies view specifically the Africans that they sold to the Europeans?

VIII. How did the trade affect the justice system and public/foreign policy in areas of Africa engaged in the trade?

IX. Explain: "The slave trade had become an arms race."

X. What did enslaved people experience prior to being loaded onto ships?

XI. What percentage did not survive the Atlantic crossing?

XII. What is a tight packer?

XIII. Why might enslaved people be thrown from the ship overboard by the slave traders?

XIV. Why might Africans think that these white folks were cannibals? What were some of their responses to this idea?

XV. Where were women and children housed on slaved ships?

XVI. What does the video suggest were effects of the trade and of its stopping on Africa's future.

XVII. What developed for how Africans were judged due to slave trade?