the atlantic slave trade beginning around 1500 ending around 1870
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The Atlantic Slave Trade
Beginning around 1500 ending around 1870
Europeans imported close to million Africans to the Americas
Why?
• Looking for source of to work on
• Ecomienda system ended in 1542 – many natives died from and
treatment on plantations
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CHEAP LABOR
DISEASES HARSH
PLANTATIONS
Europeans turned to Africans for a number of reasons:
• Did not view as • Seemed to be immune to European • Experienced in hard • was similar to Africa’s• Less likely to
HUMANDISEASES
LABORCLIMATE
ESCAPE
Europeans did not seize the slaves- they were African & played a willing role:They enemy tribes and sold them to the Europeans for , , &
RULERS MERCHANTSPURCHASED
CAPTUREDGUNS GOLD
GOODS
Transatlantic trading networkCarried a variety of goods - to
America; to Europe
to Africa
SLAVESRAW MATERIALS
TRIANGULAR TRADE:
MANUFACTURED GOODS
MIDDLE PASSAGE:On the journey from Africa to America of Africans died The voyage was called the MIDDLE PASSAGE – middle leg of a slave’s journey
MILLIONS
1. CAPTURED
2. TRANSPORTED
3. SOLD
MIDDLE PASSAGE:Conditions on the slave ships were terrible:
Not enoughOVERCROWDING FOOD
WHIPPINGS & BEATINGS
MIDDLE PASSAGE:Spread of Roughly % of Africans aboard each ship died during the trip
SICKNESS & DISEASES20
EFFECTS OF THE SLAVE TRADE:I. life – grueling work, long hours, little foodII. African torn apart – buyers looking
for & III. Increased warfare – gunsIV. - justified slavery claiming Africans
were inferior
HARSHFAMILIES
YOUNG STRONGTRIBAL
RACISM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvhKeJ6m3rY
THE MIDDLE PASSAGE DOCUMENTARY