Chapter 20Section 3

The Atlantic Slave Trade

What is the #1 good/resource discovered in the New World?

How does this relate to or influence slavery?

Why did the transportation of slaves significantly increase in

the 1600s?• Sugar/Tobacco Farms

– Need for labor– Native Americans not good slaves

• #1 demand was cheap labor

Advantages

1. Exposed to European disease

2. Farming experience

3. Less likely to escape

4. Easily identifiable

The Atlantic Slave Trade

• The buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas

• 1500-1600: 300,000 transported to Americas• 1600-1700: 1.3 million • By 1870, 9.5 million had been transported

What led to the increase in slaves being transported during

the 1600s?• Massive need for cheap labor• Supply and demand

Spain & Portugal• By 1650, 300,000 just for Spanish plantations and

mines• Portuguese surpassed this

– WHY?

• Brazil dominated the sugar trade

• By 1700, over 40% of all Africans brought to the Americas went to Brazil

England

• 1690-1807: English leading carrier of slaves

• Slave population steadily grew in the colonies

African Cooperation

• African rulers sold prisoners

• Coastal ports – easy access to slaves

• Very profitable

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Question 1 and 2

The Triangular Tradetransatlantic trading network

1. Europe –

2. Africa –

3. Americas –A. Caribbean –

B. Colonies –

Where is the Middle Passage?

Middle Passage

What were the conditions like during the Middle Passage?

• Packed into lower quarters

• Whippings/beatings

• Disease

20% of Africans on every ship

died

What was the first thing that happened to a slave when they arrived in the Americas?

1. Inspection

2. Auction Block

3. Chain Gang

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What do you think are the consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade?

Africa Americas

Lose fittest people and young people Slaves contributed to economic/cultural development

Families torn apart Labor/farming knowledge

Introduced guns to Africa Increase in African American population