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Triangular Trade & Slavery. Review. What 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?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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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?