Questions to consider while reading these chapters:
- Slavery had existed in Africa as a response to what shortage?
- What kind of societies in Africa refused to participate in the slave trade and resisted slavery the most?
- Why did the Portuguese start trading in slaves?
- Why did the King of Kongo try to back out of the trade and what was the response?
- Why in 1519 did the Portuguese begin shipping slaves directly to the Americas?
- What sources are used to determine the numbers of slaves exported from Africa?
- Why did slave trading boom in the mid 17th century?
- What percentage of exported slaves went to the Caribbean? Brazil? North America?
- How could someone become a slave?
- What were slaves traded for?
- What percentage of enslaved people died before they even started to work as slaves?
- How does one estimate the demographic impact of the slave trade on Africa?
- What were the political consequences of the trade in Africa?
- What European nation abolished the trade, and what did they do to enforce the ban?
- Was the transition to legitimate (non-slave) trade entirely beneficial?
- Why did the Kongo Kingdom embrace Christianity?
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