Many Native American Indians died from smallpox disease.

Native AmericanIndians

alsodied fromthe harshworking

conditionsimposed on

them bythe

Europeans.

The deathsof so many

Native AmericanIndians created

the need fora work force.

Europeans decided to use Africans to replace a dying American

Indian population.

Europeansremoved

millions ofAfricansbetween the 1500sand the1800s.

Africans werestripped of

their language,culture, and

freedom. Theywere forced tolabor under

brutal conditionsin plantations

in the Americas.

Enslaved Africans were usually capturedby warring ethnic groups or tribes and

traded to European and American slave traders.

Slaves were traded in exchange forguns and other goods.

The “Middle Passage” was the slave’s voyage across the

Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.

Many slavesdied during theMiddle Passagebecause of the

terribleconditions

on the ships. Slaveswere crowded

together in small, unsanitary

spaces.

Once in the Americas, African slavesencountered brutality and cruelty on

plantations in the Americas.

Life expectancy on sugar plantationswas low due to the brutal working

conditions.

The Transatlantic Slave Trade was a

tragic period in world history.

The Transatlantic Slave Trade

Causes

MiddlePassage

Effects