Graphing Slavery
This activity will help you practice working with charts and graphs.
Using the Snapshot: The Slave Trade in Numbers, answer the following questions:
The top graph shows the rise and decline of the Slave trade. Use this graph to answer questions 1–4.
What length of time does each column on the bar graph represent?
How long did it take for the slave trade to reach its height of 2 million people trafficked from Africa?
After the British abolition of the slave trade in 1807, how long did it take for there to be a noticeable effect and why?
How many people total (according to this graph) survived the Middle Passage and worked as slaves in the Western Hemisphere?
What does the bottom graph show? What can you conclude based on your reading of this graph?