Study History notes on The Slave Trade for O-Level. Useful for revision, homework, and exam preparation in Zimbabwe.
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Chapter 9 THE SLAVE TRADE Introduction - A slave is a person who is owned by another person and his function in life will be to work for someone for no pay. - If a slave was married, the family belonged to the master and family members could be sold to different masters. - It can therefore be said with certainty that a slave virtually had no rights. - He or she was a commodity (goods to be bought or sold.) - In Africa, slave trade was started by the Muslims, around the Indian Ocean, who bought slaves in East Africa and sold them in Asia and as far as China. - The Atlantic slave trade was begun by the Portuguese missionaries by the 1440 s. Countries That Participated In the Slave Trade. 1- Portugal 2- Spain 3- Britain 4- France 5- India 6- Arab Countries 7- USA 8- German Factors that Led to the Rise of Slave Trade Mineral Discovery in the New World. - Huge gold deposits were discovered in Spanish Puerto Rico and other parts of the New World as early as before 1530 . - Such minerals were heavily demanded in the European Industries. As more mines were opened up, so the demand for slaves increased. - An acute problem of labour supply arose because the indigenous people proved unequal to the tasks required of them and their population began to decline sharply. 83