NEXT WEEK:Monday: review for Unit 3 test (+5 XC points)

Tuesday: take Unit 3 test

Wednesday: 1. [Unit 3, HW 3] Prepare for current events Socratic Seminar

[DUE THURSDAY]2. [Begin Unit 4, HW 1] Japan reading + Cornell Notes [DUE

FRIDAY]

Thursday: Socratic Seminar (Unit 3 Binder Work DUE)

Friday: Start Unit 4 (Comparative Political and Social Systems, 1500-1800)

Unit 3, Lecture #3:

The Transatlantic Slave Trade

1. How did the Atlantic slave trade start?1. How did the Atlantic slave trade start?Colonies need workers (why?)

Spanish colonies (starting 1492)

Three choices: 1. Native Americans? 2. Europeans? 3. Africans?

Caribbean plantation

Europeans start relationships with Africans:

Portuguese bring manufactured goods, like guns and textiles.

African kings bring slaves

“Triangle Trade” – the more accurate model…

“Triangle Trade”“Triangle Trade”

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“Black” Gold?“Black” Gold?

Analyze the map:

Where did slaves come from? Where did they go to?

“The Middle Passage” – slaves traveling across the Atlantic

“The Middle Passage” – slaves traveling across the Atlantic

- Took 1-3 months

-over 30,000 voyages each ship takes 300-850 people

Slave Ship PlanSlave Ship Plan

Horrifying conditions onboard the ship…Horrifying conditions onboard the ship…

- Endured torture, rape, denial of identity

- High mortality rate due to disease

Revolt!Revolt!

Many felt death was preferable

African Captives Thrown Overboard

African Captives Thrown Overboard

Morbid fact: Sharks followed the slave ships across the Atlantic

What were the impacts? What were the impacts?IN AFRICA –

depended on where you were

275 different groups affected by slave trade

Some not affected…

Some grew rich

Cape Coast Castle, W. Africa

Cape Coast Castle, W. Africa

3. What were the impacts?3. What were the impacts?OVERWHELMINGLY…

Africa suffered greatly

-- population loss-- distorted sex ratios

3. What were the impacts?3. What were the impacts? Encouraged VIOLENCE within Africa

African Captives in Yokes

Quote from African King of Kongo to King of Portugal (~1520)

What is the King of Kongo asking for? Why?

Each day the traders are kidnapping our people – children of this country, sons of our nobles, even people of our own family. This corruption and depravity are so widespread that our land is entirely depopulated. We need in this kingdom only priests and schoolteachers, and no merchandise, unless it is wine and flour for mass. It is our wish that this Kingdom not be a place for the trade or transport of slaves.

Many of our subjects eagerly lust after Portuguese merchandise that your subjects have brought into our domains. To satisfy this inordinate appetite, they seize many of our black free subjects…they sell them. After having taken these prisoners [to the coast] secretly or at night…as soon as the captives are in the hands of the white men they are branded with a red-hot iron.

Other impacts? Forced migration…and psychological toll

Other impacts? Forced migration…and psychological toll

-10 million survived Middle Passage

- 450,000 to USA (5% of total)

- Worked on plantations, farms, mines, and as domestic servants

Notice of a Slave Auction

First Slave AuctionNew Amsterdam (Dutch New York

City - 17c)

First Slave AuctionNew Amsterdam (Dutch New York

City - 17c)

Slave Auction in the Southern U. S.

Slave Auction in the Southern U. S.

- By 18th century, most U.S. slaves in the South

- Grew rice, cotton, indigo, sugarcane, tobacco

Slave Master BrandsSlave Master Brands

Slave With Iron MuzzleSlave With Iron Muzzle

30 Lashes30 Lashes

Whipped Slave, early 19cWhipped Slave, early 19c

A Slave LynchingA Slave Lynching

Negro Hung Alive by WaistNegro Hung Alive by Waist

Abolitionist Symbol, 19th C

Abolitionist Symbol, 19th C

Slavery ended:

1808- no more imports into US

1838- British West Indies (Caribbean)

1848- French colonies

1865- US

1888- Brazil

4. Abolition4. Abolition

Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797)

Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797)

1789 wrote and published, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or

Gustavus Vassa the African.