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1.11 Global Africans

Group 1

Use the image and your knowledge of early modern history to answer the following questions. Consider the economic, social, and political factors that motivated movement between Africa and Europe before the transatlantic slave trade, and reflect on the impact of early Portuguese labor practices.

Source 1.1

Chafariz d’El-Rey (The King’s Fountain), 1570–1580

Question 1a

Short answer

Describe one reason why Africans traveled to Europe before the onset of the transatlantic slave trade.

Question 1b

Short answer

Describe one reason why Europeans traveled to Africa before the onset of the transatlantic slave trade.

Question 1c

Short answer

Explain how early forms of enslaved labor established by the Portuguese influenced the development of slave-based plantation economies in the Americas.

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