Chapter 19

Afro-eurasian Connections

Long-standing

Mediterranean

The red Sea

Indian Ocean

Shift

From the interior to the coast

European interests

Sahel

History

Diverse enviroment

Different Political systems

Igbo-Speaking

Niger Delta Region

Merit-based

Accumulate titles and authority

Achievements vs birth

elders Crucial role

Yam-based

Dense Population

Other

Centralized hiererchical

Cultural and Economical Energy

Islam Countries

Gain Portuguesh Land

Self government

Omani

Great Lakes Region

Agriculture

Cattles

Kimpa Vita

Christ and apostles

Black

Died Friday and reborn Sunday

Talk to God

Kongo

South Africa

Calvinist

Sahel

South Sahara

Songhai Empire

Timbuktu

Gold

Salt Mines

Africa and the Americas

Atlantic Plantation System

Africans use as slaves to grow crops

Sugar

Why

Able to survive to disease environment

Stand the weather

Expensive

Passive victims

Many resisted

Difficulties to Mantain African culture

Influenced American Culture

African Culture

Distortled

Types

Societies with slaves

Common in Africa and Islamic World

Lower place in society

Retain legal Rights

Slave Societies

Slave/master society

Heart of social and economic life

Expensive but

Improve Social class

Consisted of

Great House

Master

Aristocartic or noble

Overseers

Lower-status immigrants

Mixed Race

Slaves

Too much work

High Mortality rates

Enslaved women

Can´t have children

Poor diet

Harsh Work

North America

More Balanced

Less mortality

Resistance

Two Theories

Inhumans

Rebels

Try to escape

Pirates

Maroons

Jamaica or Brazil

Alliances with Indians

US

Captured

Death

Protests

Code languages

Songs

Religious Rites

Religion

Dont Care

Christians

Equiano

Manumission

Free slaves

Not men

Kongo Kingdom

West Africa

Buy Slaves in African Market

Prisioners

Ashante Kingdom

Prisoner

Homes for money

Household servants

Trade with Europeans

Dahomey Kingdom

Slaves-for-Guns

Military

Other villages

Slave-for-guns defense

Slavery Can be made humane

Religious conviction

Slave abolition

Slavery had no legal basis in England

Josiah Wedgwood

Am I not A Man and a Brother?

William Wilberforce

Abolition to House of Commons

Down with Slave trade

1807

Act for the abolition of the slave trade