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The atlantic slave tradeThe atlantic slave tradeThe atlantic slave tradeThe atlantic slave tradeChapter 20, Section 3 (Page 495-499)Chapter 20, Section 3 (Page 495-499)
start of slavery in the americasstart of slavery in the americas
Why?
Growing labor needs
Sugar Plantations & Tobacco farms required many workers to be profitable
When?
1500s: Europeans began using Africans as slaves in the Americas
Why?
Growing labor needs
Sugar Plantations & Tobacco farms required many workers to be profitable
When?
1500s: Europeans began using Africans as slaves in the Americas
why enslave africans?why enslave africans?
Many Native Americans died from war and disease
“Advantages”:
Immunity to European diseases
Had experience farming
Strangers to America meant they didn’t know the land or people there = less likely to escape
Many Native Americans died from war and disease
“Advantages”:
Immunity to European diseases
Had experience farming
Strangers to America meant they didn’t know the land or people there = less likely to escape
result?result?
Atlantic Slave Trade: the buying and selling of Africans to work in the Americas
From 1500 to 1870, about 9.5 million Africans were transported to the Americas
doesn’t included all those that died on the journey :(
Atlantic Slave Trade: the buying and selling of Africans to work in the Americas
From 1500 to 1870, about 9.5 million Africans were transported to the Americas
doesn’t included all those that died on the journey :(
slave laborslave labor
For what were Africans used as slaves?
Mines: Copper, Gold, Silver
Plantations: Sugar, Cotton, Coffee, Rice
For what were Africans used as slaves?
Mines: Copper, Gold, Silver
Plantations: Sugar, Cotton, Coffee, Rice
Atlantic slave tradeAtlantic slave trade
Africa’s role in the slave tradeAfrica’s role in the slave tradeSome African rulers and merchants willingly participated
Captured Africans from the inland and brought to the coast
Why?
Profitable: traded to Europeans for goods (ex/ gold, guns)
Others were against it-depopulating, destroying country, morally wrong
Some African rulers and merchants willingly participated
Captured Africans from the inland and brought to the coast
Why?
Profitable: traded to Europeans for goods (ex/ gold, guns)
Others were against it-depopulating, destroying country, morally wrong
QuoteQuote
“And we cannot reckon how great the damage is, since...merchants are taking every day our natives, sons of the land and the sons of our noblemen and vassals and our relatives, because the thieves and men of bad conscience grab them...they grab them and get them to be sold; and so great, Sir, is the corruption...that our country is being completely depopulated, and Your Highness should not agree with this nor accept it...it is our will that in these Kingdoms there should not be any trade of slaves nor outlet for them.” -King Alfonso of Congo, Africa to the King of Portugal
“And we cannot reckon how great the damage is, since...merchants are taking every day our natives, sons of the land and the sons of our noblemen and vassals and our relatives, because the thieves and men of bad conscience grab them...they grab them and get them to be sold; and so great, Sir, is the corruption...that our country is being completely depopulated, and Your Highness should not agree with this nor accept it...it is our will that in these Kingdoms there should not be any trade of slaves nor outlet for them.” -King Alfonso of Congo, Africa to the King of Portugal
triangular tradetriangular trade
Transatlantic trading network, where slaves & goods were carried between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the Americas
Transatlantic trading network, where slaves & goods were carried between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the Americas
phases of trading systemphases of trading system
1: Goods brought to Africa
2: Middle Passage
Voyage that brought captured Africans to the Americas
Awful conditions
3: Goods brought back to Europe
1: Goods brought to Africa
2: Middle Passage
Voyage that brought captured Africans to the Americas
Awful conditions
3: Goods brought back to Europe
slave shipslave ship
arrival in americaarrival in america
Slave auctions & markets-sold off
Field, Mining, Domestic Slaves
Abuse, Mistreatment
Lifelong
Slave auctions & markets-sold off
Field, Mining, Domestic Slaves
Abuse, Mistreatment
Lifelong
consequencesconsequences
In Africa:
lost generations
tore apart families, societies
guns- helped spread war/conflict throughout Africa
In Africa:
lost generations
tore apart families, societies
guns- helped spread war/conflict throughout Africa
consequencesconsequences
America
contributed to economic & cultural developments
diverse population
slavery’s legacy
on the African-American population
U.S.’s history
America
contributed to economic & cultural developments
diverse population
slavery’s legacy
on the African-American population
U.S.’s history
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