4.5 Absolutionist movements

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When was slavery abolished in the Dutch colonies?

15002000

There are still photographs of slaves because the camera was invented (1816) before the abolition of slavery (1865 in the USA). 

Should the Dutch government apologise for its part in the slave trade?

Yes, and pay reparations

Yes, but without reparations

No

Goals for this lesson

At the end of this lesson you...

• Understand how European traders and settlers used and expanded the existing African slave trade to supply their plantations with a workforce.
• Know under what kind of circumstances slaves were brought to the Americas and put to work.
• Understand the rise of Abolitionism and the eventual abolition of slavery.
• Unsterstand the connection between the Englightenment and abolitionism.

Egyptian slavery

Roman slavery

Medieval slavery

Arab slavery

Christianity and slavery

Arab Slave

Trade

Portugese exploration

• The Portugese found new routes around West Africa by sea.
• Result = they didn't need the Arab traders anymore. 

4.5 Absolutionist movements

There are still photographs of slaves because the camera was invented (1816) before the abolition of slavery (1865 in the USA). 

Slavery

• = system of people owning, buying and selling people as property. 
• The African Slave trade started with African and Arab traders in the Middle Ages.

In the 16th and 17th century the English, Spanish, Dutch, French and Portugese established colonies in the Americas. What products were produced in those colonies?

1. Coffee, sugar & tabacco
2. Fruits, sugar & spices
3. Spices, coffee & tabacco
4. Coffee, sugar & spices

American plantation house

Workers needed

• Because of a collapse in the Native population many workers were needed for plantation farming. 
• European traders turned to the African slave trade as an alternative.

Poster for slave auction

Slave auction (1861)

Triangular trade

Abolutionism

•  = Movement of people questioning the morality of slavery and attempting to end it.
• Result of the spread of  Enlightenment ideas.

Goals for this lesson

At the end of this lesson you...

• Understand how European traders and settlers used and expanded the existing African slave trade to supply their plantations with a workforce.
• Know under what kind of circumstances slaves were brought to the Americas and put to work.
• Understand the rise of Abolitionism and the eventual abolition of slavery.
• Unsterstand the connection between the Englightenment and abolitionism.