贵金属投资技术分析英文版(62).ppt

Most of the slaves offered to European slave traders were prisoners of war, which were sold by the victors as their booty. B. The Bight of Biafra and Angola In Angola Afro-Portuguese merchants brought trade goods to the interior and exchanged them for slaves, who were then transported to Portuguese middlemen who then sold the slaves to slave dealers so the slaves would be shipped to Brazil. In Angola, enslavement has been liked to environmental crises, like drought, and these refugees were traded by kings to slave dealers in exchange for Indian textiles and European goods that the kings used to cement old alliances, attract new followers and build a stronger state. The Bight of Biafra had no large-scale wars and consequently few prisoners of war. Instead, kidnapping was the major source of slaves. Afro-Portuguese traders guided large caravans of trade goods 600 to 800 miles inland in exchange for slaves at special markets. The Atlantic slave trade was based on a partnership between European and African elites that was mutually beneficial. Portuguese King African King C. Africa’s European and Islamic Contacts European’s built a growing trade with Africa, but did not acquire very much African territory. Islam and Arabic spread much faster than Christianity and English south of the Sahara. The volume of trade goods imported into sub-Saharan Africa was not large enough to have any significant effect on the livelihood of traditional African artisans. The Ottoman Empire controlled all of North Africa except for Morocco. Muslims had no objection to owning or trading slaves, but it was forbidden to enslave fellow Muslims. However, Muslim states south of the Sahara did enslave African Muslims. The trans-Saharan slave trade was smaller in volume than the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Approximately, 850,000 slaves trudged across the desert’s various routes. Africans sold fewer women than men into the Atlantic slave trade which reduced the long-term effects and did not s