Triangular Trade & Slavery

Triangular Trade & Slavery

ReviewWhat was the Columbian Exchange?

What was the Triangular Trade?

Causes of slavery in the New World?Europeans needed a source of labor in the New World◦Gold & silver

mining◦Sugarcane

farming

Why were African slaves used?

Native Americans made bad slaves◦ Died from diseases, fled

into wilderness, weren’t used to farming

Europeans didn’t want to do hard labor themselves (only wanted to profit from it)

Established practice of slavery in Africa

Africans familiar with farming

How did slaves get from Africa to the New World?

Slave trade

rs captured

individuals

in Africa

Slaves sold

to Europeans

in coast

al cities

of Africa

Europeans

brought

slaves over

to New World

on slave ships

The Middle Passage

Effects of Slavery?Millions of Africans

sent to the New World

Untold numbers dead during Middle Passage

Set precedent for slavery in New World

Plantation owners grew rich from slave labor

Effects of Slavery?