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Slavery Aim: How did the Atlantic Slave trade shape the lives and economies of Africans and Europeans? Warm-up: vocab pg 125 Triangular trade, mutiny, Middle Passage

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Page 1: Slavery Aim: How did the Atlantic Slave trade shape the lives and economies of Africans and Europeans? Warm-up: vocab pg 125 Triangular trade, mutiny,

SlaveryAim: How did the Atlantic Slave

trade shape the lives and economies of Africans and

Europeans?

Warm-up: vocab pg 125

Triangular trade, mutiny, Middle Passage

Page 2: Slavery Aim: How did the Atlantic Slave trade shape the lives and economies of Africans and Europeans? Warm-up: vocab pg 125 Triangular trade, mutiny,

The triangle trade

• The transportation of Africans to North America and the Caribbean formed one side of what has become known as the triangle trade.

• Ships would load up with guns, ammunition and manufactured goods in Britain and France, then sail for four months to West Africa where the cargo was exchanged for Africans.

• Then came the middle passage across the Atlantic, and the sale of the African people in the Caribbean and in North American colonies.

• Finally, the ships loaded up with the sugar, tobacco and cotton produced in the colonies and sailed back to England and France where the raw produce was refined and re-exported to other countries.

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• More than 20 million West Africans were captured and shipped across the Atlantic to work on plantations, but it is estimated that only half survived the journey.

• The Africans were often held in prisons for a long time before the ships came and then had a long journey, known as the middle passage, across the sea to the Caribbean.

• The Africans were chained together and crammed into holds on board ships and were subject to horrible living conditions, cruelty and torture.

• Preferring death to slavery, some of the Africans managed to break their chains and dive overboard; others succumbed to disease. Millions of others braved the deplorable journey to face a harsh life on the plantations.

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The Slave TradeThe Slave TradeThe Slave TradeThe Slave Trade1. Existed in Africa before the

coming of the Europeans.

2. Portuguese replaced European slaves with Africans.

Sugar cane & sugar plantations.

First boatload of African slaves brought by the Spanish in 1518.

275,000 enslaved Africans exportedto other countries.

3. Between 16c & 19c, about 10 million Africans shipped to the Americas.

Page 6: Slavery Aim: How did the Atlantic Slave trade shape the lives and economies of Africans and Europeans? Warm-up: vocab pg 125 Triangular trade, mutiny,

• Slavery in the Americas

• Why?

• Needed labor on plantations

• Black Africans were thought to be a cheap labor force b/c

• a. worked in hot climates

• b. new to the area

• c. immune to European disease

• d. experience in farming

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• 400,000 slaves in the Southern colonies

• 50,000 slaves in the Northern colonies

• Transported by ship, through the middle passage

• 20% died on the voyage

• Slave ships called floating coffins

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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trans-Atlantic Slave TradeTrade

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trans-Atlantic Slave TradeTrade

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Slave ShipSlave ShipSlave ShipSlave Ship

““Middle Passage”Middle Passage”

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““Coffin” Position Coffin” Position Below DeckBelow Deck

““Coffin” Position Coffin” Position Below DeckBelow Deck

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African CaptivesAfrican CaptivesThrown OverboardThrown OverboardAfrican CaptivesAfrican Captives

Thrown OverboardThrown Overboard

Sharks followed the slave Sharks followed the slave ships!ships!