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Slavery and Triangle Trade
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Triangle Trade
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European Background
• Portuguese started African slave trade in 1441
• First Africans in Hispanola in 1505 • 1450-1850 ~12 million Africans
sent to Americas
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Why Africans?• Native Americans dying off Some degree of disease
resistance• No muskets and gunpowder• Africans participated in trade by enslaving others,
selling debtors and criminals, and kidnapping• Skilled workers
– Knew how to extract precious ore from mines– Familiar with soils and crops
• Not familiar with the land—making escape less likely
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Portuguese Slave Trade• The Portuguese
population was too small to provide a large number of colonists.
• The sugar plantations required a large labor force.
• Slaves filled this demand. Europeans and
Africans Meet to Trade
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Slave Trade and Sugar• Portuguese crop
growers extended the use of slave labor to South America.
• Because of this, Brazil would eventually become the wealthiest of the sugar-producing lands in the western hemisphere.
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European Slave Trade
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Plantations• The first was established by the Spanish on
Hispaniola in 1516.
• Originally the predominant crop was sugar. In addition to sugar, plantations produced crops like tobacco, indigo, and cotton.
• In the 1530s Portuguese began organizing plantations in Brazil, and Brazil became the world’s leading supplier of sugar.
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Plantations• Labor intensive= HARD WORK
• Relied almost exclusively on large amounts of slave labor supervised by small numbers of European or Euro-American managers.
Brazilian sugar mill in the 1830s
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Justification- Why?• Slavery made development of the
New World profitable $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $
$ $ $
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Slavery Expands• In 1518, the first shipment of slaves went
directly from West Africa to the Caribbean where the slaves worked on sugar plantations.
• By the 1520s, the Spanish had introduced slaves to Mexico, Peru, and Central America where they worked as farmers and miners.
• By the early 17th century, the British had introduced slaves to North America.
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Impact of Slave Trade on the Americas
•Diverse Culture- Cultural Diffusion- Africans brought part of their culture (like music food, traditions, Language) to the Americas.
•Made Latin American colonies (Brazil) wealthy
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Exportation• Trip called the
Middle Passage• 5000 miles, 3 wks.
to 3 mos.• 20-25% died• Strip Africans’ self
respect and self identity
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The Middle Passage
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The Middle Passage
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Slave Master Brands
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Inspection and Sale