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 Atlantic Slave Trade

y 1530s- First slaves brought to the Americas 

by the Spanish

y A s other European countries began to settlein the Americas, they took part.

y Who were the original slaves in the Americas?

y Why were Africans used as slaves?

y Triangle Trade

 was a 3 leginternational tradenetwork between

Europe, Africa, andthe Americas.

y First Leg:

y Europe Africa

y European merchants brought goods suchas guns, cloth, gold(cash) to Africa.

y Second Leg:

y Africa Americas

y This leg was called the Middle Passagein whichslaveswere taken from Africa to the Americas.

y Once slaves got to the Americas they wereexchanged for sugar, molasses,and rawmaterialsproduced on European plantations.

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Third Leg:y Americas  Europe

y Merchants took sugar, molasses,cotton, furs, salted fish, and rum to Europe.

Sugar plantation

y Merchants became wealthy 

y Ship building flourished in New England

y Colonial industries became much moreprofitable (ex. tobacco, cotton)

y Forts build along the west coast of Africa.

y Walked in slave caravans to the forts some 1000 miles away.

y Selected by theEuropeansand branded.

y One half survived thedeath march.

y Place in undergrounddungeonsuntil they wereboarded on ships.

yMiddle Passage -The Middle Passage was the route of theformer slave trade of  Africans across the Atlantic ocean to the

 Americas.y Slavers packed 300 or

400 Africans into theship.

y Journey lasted 6-8  weeks.

Forced into close quarters

y Little ventilation, human waste, horrificodors. Unclean.

y Shackledy Fed once or twice a day 

and brought on deckfor limited times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=97nQu-R  vWzQ

Sometimes laid chest to foot

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10-16million Africans forcibly transported across the Atlantic from 1500-1900.

y 2 million died during the Middle Passage (10-15%)

y Another 15-30% dies during the march to the coast.

y For every 100 slaves that reached the New World, another 40 died in Africa or during the MiddlePassage.

y Where weremost slaves 

taken?

y Caribbean 40%

y Brazil 40%

y Latin America 10%

y British North America 10%

y 1789  wrote andpublished, TheInteresting Narrative of the Life of OlaudahEquiano

y Captured at the age of 11.

y Depicted the life of aslave from the point of  view of a slave.

y "The firs t object which saluted myeyes when I arri ved on the coastwas the sea, and a slave ship, whichwas then riding at anchor, and waiting for its cargo. These filled me with astonishment, which wassoon connected with terror, when I was carried on board. I wasimmediately handled, and tossed up to see if I were sound, by someof the crew; and I was now persuaded that I had gotten into aworld of bad spirits, and that theywere going to kill me."

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Indentured Servitude Slavery

Contracted Time Period For li fe/freedom was not

contractual.

Could be bought, sold, or 

leased.

Could be punished by

whipping.

Were allowed to own property. Not property owners.