The four centuries of the slave trade millions of Africans underwent some experience but the numbers varied over time. The 16th century slave exports from Africa averaged fewer than 3,000 annually. Those years the Portuguese were interested in the African gold, spices, and textiles. In Asia they became more involved in transporting African goods including slaves from African port to another. Later in the 17th century the pace picked up as the slave trading became highly competitive with the British, Dutch and French contesting the earlier Portuguese monopoly. Century and a half had 1700 and 1850 marked there high point of slave trade as the plantation economics of America boomed.
Chapter 14 documents
There were 4 documents and I thought document 14.4 The slave trade and the kingdom of Asante was interesting to me. The slave trade of Asante did not have much of an effect as it did in Kongo. The region known as the gold coast, the kingdom of Asante arose in the 18th century occupying about 100,000 square miles and 3 million people. It was a powerful state and heavily invested in slave trade.
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