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African Slave Trade and Slavery
Syllabus of the Subject: African Slave Trade and Slavery.
The Transatlantic African Slave Trade (men, women, and children): a crime against humanity.
1- Introduction to the African Slave Trade.
- Role of the UNESCO. Project: Slave Route;
- Introduction to the African Slave Trade in the Arab-Muslim World;
- Indian Ocean Trade;
- Slavery as “institution”.
2- Transatlantic African Slave Trade and Slavery.
- Slave Routes;
- Why the African slaves?;
- The Transatlantic African Slave Trade and its impact on the African, European, and American socio-economic development.
3- Similarities and Differences between the African Slave Trade.
- History of Slavery in Africa;
- Moral dimensions of the African Slave Trade;
- Transatlantic African Slave Trade;
- The African Slave Trade from 16th to 18th centuries (General History of Africa - UNESCO).
4- Slave Uprisings
5- Abolition of Slavery
- Role of the Quakers, William Wilberforce;
- The case of the abolition in Santo Domingo;
- Haitian Revolution;
- Prohibitions of the slave trade;
- Abolitionists decrees;
- End of Slavery;
- From the abolition of Slavery to Colonization;
- Abolition by countries;
- Abolition of slave trade (UNESCO);
- Diaspora Division of the African Union;
- Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (United Nations).
6- Post-slavery societies in America (the African Diaspora).
- African Diaspora in America;
- Creation of their identity. Marcus Garvey. Aimé
Césaire;
- Contributions to society: music (jazz), language, sciences, and religion;
- Racist theories;
- Socio-psychological consequences.
7. Slavery in a globalized World
- Conventions prohibiting the Slavery;
- Supplementary Convention on Abolition of Slavery;
- Slavery today;
- New forms of slavery.
8- Some personages and institutions related abolitionism
- Quakers;
- Henry David Thoreau;
- William Wilberforce;
- Toussaint Louverture;
- Harriet Tubman;
- Frederick Douglass;
- Victor Schoelcher.
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Transatlantic African Slave Trade
Between 1500 and 1900:
- Near four million of African slaves were transported to the Indian Ocean Islands
plantations;
- Near eight millions were exported to the Mediterranean countries.
Figures (UNESCO) on the number of deportees (VIII - XIX century): 24
million Africans.
- Estimation of the African population (half of the nineteenth
century): 100 million Africans;
- What the African population might have been (half of the nineteenth
century): 200 million Africans.
African Slave Trade:
- African Historical Trafficking: (estimation tens
of million Africans);
- Muslim Trade (7th - 20th centuries, 8 - 12 million Africans):
- Tran-Saharan Trade: Destination to the Maghreb, Egypt, and the Mediterranean region (eight million);
- Oriental Trade: Destination
- Arabian Peninsula;
- Indian Ocean Islands (four million).
- Transatlantic African Slave Trade:
- organized by the Europeans: Spain - Castile (the founders), the United Kingdom, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, and Denmark. The United States and Brazil;
- Centuries: 16th - 19th (400 years);
- Destination: throughout the Americas and the Caribbean;
- 12 million Africans.
Africans descendants of the Diaspora have largely contributed to the European, American, and the Asian development.
African Civilization:
Angola,
Benin,
Botswana,
Burkina Faso,
Burundi,
Cameroon,
Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros,
Congo, Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Djibouti, Egypt,
Eritrea,
Ethiopia,
Equatorial Guinea,
Gabon, Gambia, Ghana,
Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau,
Kenya,
Lesotho,
Liberia, Libya,
Madagascar,
Malawi,
Mali,
Mauritania,
Mauritius,
Mozambique,
Namibia,
Niger,
Nigeria,
Rwanda,
São Tomé and Príncipe,
Senegal, Seychelles,
Sierra Leone, Somalia,
South Africa,
Sudan,
South Sudan,
Eswatini (Swaziland),
Tanzania,
Togo,
Uganda,
Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
EENI African Business Portal.
More information (UNESCO):
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Routes of the slave;
- General History of Africa.
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