African Slave TradeTriangle Trade

Triangle Trade Routes

African Advantages to the Slave Trade

• Slavery profited a few Africans• In times of famine, some Africans

sold themselves into slavery in order to survive.

Slave Ships

African Disadvantages to the Slave Trade

• Slavery tore apart families and communities

• Depopulated the labor base, and stopped most economic development.

• Slaves were brutalized and treated as commodities

• Pitted Africans against Africans for the new European goods

European Advantages to the Slave Trade

• Extremely profitable

• Huge source of cheap labor, especially in the Caribbean and US South.

• Helped build the capital base that fueled the Industrial Revolution.

Slavery

European Disadvantages to the Slave Trade

• Slavery was abhorred by some Europeans and Americans.

• Compromised the efforts of Christian missionaries.

Slavery Assignment

• Put yourself in their shoes! Create 2 pictures that illustrates Slavery from the Slave owner’s perspective AND the Slave’s Perspective.

• Each illustration must have a short paragraph describing the picture and what the people in the picture think about their situation.