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3.3 Trans Saharan Slave Trade
Social Studies · Grade 8 · 6 lessons in the design
What this covers
- Meaning of Trans-Saharan trade and Trans-Saharan slave trade
- Factors that led to development of Trans-Saharan slave trade in Africa
- Organisation: routes, goods, caravans, source regions and markets
- Effects of Trans-Saharan slave trade in Africa
- Why people subject others to slave trade; social justice then and now
- Assertiveness in promoting social justice; slogans and messages
What you will be able to do
- identify factors that led to development of Trans-Saharan slave trade in Africa
- describe organisation of Trans-Saharan slave trade in Africa
- outline effects of Trans-Saharan slave trade in Africa
- demonstrate assertiveness in promotion of social justice
- desire to promote social justice in a society
Key questions
“Why do people subject others to slave trade?”
Lessons
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What was the Trans-Saharan slave trade?
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizHow Trans-Saharan trade in gold and salt also marched people north, and how this differs from Atlantic and Indian Ocean trades studied before.
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Factors that led to Trans-Saharan slave trade
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizCamels, northern demand, war and tribute, existing gold-salt caravans, profit, and othering - debated as answers to the inquiry.
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Organisation of Trans-Saharan slave trade
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizSource, middlemen, caravan, market and forced work; goods both ways; mapping Sahel source regions without branding the living.
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Effects of Trans-Saharan slave trade in Africa
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizHow to outline harms in raided belts and mixed side-effects on the same road, without calling chains a fair swap for books or salt.
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Social justice then and now
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizHow othering still hides in modern trafficking and servitude, and how Kenya law plus a clear no begin assertiveness.
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Slogans and messages for social justice
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizHow to compose short, true slogans and songs that show assertiveness, close the inquiry, and desire justice without graphic harm or branding.