triangular trade and the middle passage
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TRIANGULAR TRADE THE WORLD AROUND 1750 *Create a definition for CHEAP MANUFACTURED GOODS TRIANGULAR TRADE Trinkets – pots, pans, beads, shells, cloth SLAVES WERE USED ON PLANTATIONS, GROWING SUGAR, TOBACCO, COTTON. THIRD STAGE – RAW MATERIALS SENT TO EUROPE Profits from slave sales were used to buy produce from the plantations e.g.. sugar, tobacco, cotton, which were sold for great profit in Europe. Cheap trinkets exchanged for slaves FIRST STAGE – EUROPE TO AFRICA U.S.A. TRIBAL CHIEFS EXCHANGE SLAVES , OR SLAVES ARE CAPTURED Mexico Caribbean Islands SECOND STAGE - THE MIDDLE PASSAGE SLAVE TRADERS THEN SOLD THE SLAVES TO PLANTATION OWNERS *Create a definition for Triangular trade Brazil THE ‘MIDDLE PASSAGE’ – THE JOURNEY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.. THE WORLD AROUND 1750TRANSCRIPT
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Triangular Trade and the
Middle Passage
CHEAP MANUFACTURED GOODS
Trinkets – pots, pans, beads, shells, cloth
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TRIBAL CHIEFS EXCHANGE SLAVES , OR SLAVES ARE CAPTURED SECOND STAGE - THE
MIDDLE PASSAGESLAVE TRADERS THEN SOLD THE SLAVES TO PLANTATION OWNERS THE ‘MIDDLE
PASSAGE’ – THE JOURNEY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC..
THIRD STAGE – RAW MATERIALS SENT TO EUROPE
Profits from slave sales were used to
buy produce from the plantations e.g..
sugar, tobacco, cotton, which were sold
for great profit in Europe.
SLAVES WERE USED ON PLANTATIONS, GROWING SUGAR, TOBACCO, COTTON.
Brazil
Caribbean Islands
Mexico
U.S.A.
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Middle Passage – passage across the Atlantic Ocean from West Africa to the Americas that was the route of the African American slave trade. Where were the majority of enslaved Africans taken? 4
A Typical Slave Ship, at port in London’s East India docks – getting ready for the next slave run.A typical cargo included:
IRON BARS
COWRIE SHELLS5
Number of people enslavedNumber of people enslaved30 million taken from their homes
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•10 million die during capture phase•10 million die during middle passage
•10 million survive to make it over the ocean
This model [right] and the charts were used by slave reformers at the end of the 18th century, to show how a Liverpool slave ship of 320 tons could carry 400 slaves. On one voyage the ship carried 609 slaves.
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• Africans were crowded and chained cruelly aboard slave ships.
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Mutiny on the Amistad
Amistad Rebellion was a revolt in 1839 by black slaves against Spaniards who had bought them
Although the rebels had control La Amistad, they did not know how to sail or navigate it
The slaves ordered the ships owners to sail back to Africa, instead they sailed to New York
courts ruled that the rebels had been free people who were illegally enslaved and thus were justified in rebelling
Africa Americas Europe
Discussion questions:1. How was each continents’ population affected?2. How would a population shift/change affect each continent’s culture?3. Was the trade beneficial or detrimental to each continent?