The atlantic slave tradeThe atlantic slave tradeThe atlantic slave tradeThe atlantic slave tradeChapter 20, Section 3 (Page 495-499)Chapter 20, Section 3 (Page 495-499)

start of slavery in the americasstart of slavery in the americas

Why?

Growing labor needs

Sugar Plantations & Tobacco farms required many workers to be profitable

When?

1500s: Europeans began using Africans as slaves in the Americas

Why?

Growing labor needs

Sugar Plantations & Tobacco farms required many workers to be profitable

When?

1500s: Europeans began using Africans as slaves in the Americas

why enslave africans?why enslave africans?

Many Native Americans died from war and disease

“Advantages”:

Immunity to European diseases

Had experience farming

Strangers to America meant they didn’t know the land or people there = less likely to escape

Many Native Americans died from war and disease

“Advantages”:

Immunity to European diseases

Had experience farming

Strangers to America meant they didn’t know the land or people there = less likely to escape

result?result?

Atlantic Slave Trade: the buying and selling of Africans to work in the Americas

From 1500 to 1870, about 9.5 million Africans were transported to the Americas

doesn’t included all those that died on the journey :(

Atlantic Slave Trade: the buying and selling of Africans to work in the Americas

From 1500 to 1870, about 9.5 million Africans were transported to the Americas

doesn’t included all those that died on the journey :(

slave laborslave labor

For what were Africans used as slaves?

Mines: Copper, Gold, Silver

Plantations: Sugar, Cotton, Coffee, Rice

For what were Africans used as slaves?

Mines: Copper, Gold, Silver

Plantations: Sugar, Cotton, Coffee, Rice

Atlantic slave tradeAtlantic slave trade

Africa’s role in the slave tradeAfrica’s role in the slave tradeSome African rulers and merchants willingly participated

Captured Africans from the inland and brought to the coast

Why?

Profitable: traded to Europeans for goods (ex/ gold, guns)

Others were against it-depopulating, destroying country, morally wrong

Some African rulers and merchants willingly participated

Captured Africans from the inland and brought to the coast

Why?

Profitable: traded to Europeans for goods (ex/ gold, guns)

Others were against it-depopulating, destroying country, morally wrong

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“And we cannot reckon how great the damage is, since...merchants are taking every day our natives, sons of the land and the sons of our noblemen and vassals and our relatives, because the thieves and men of bad conscience grab them...they grab them and get them to be sold; and so great, Sir, is the corruption...that our country is being completely depopulated, and Your Highness should not agree with this nor accept it...it is our will that in these Kingdoms there should not be any trade of slaves nor outlet for them.” -King Alfonso of Congo, Africa to the King of Portugal

“And we cannot reckon how great the damage is, since...merchants are taking every day our natives, sons of the land and the sons of our noblemen and vassals and our relatives, because the thieves and men of bad conscience grab them...they grab them and get them to be sold; and so great, Sir, is the corruption...that our country is being completely depopulated, and Your Highness should not agree with this nor accept it...it is our will that in these Kingdoms there should not be any trade of slaves nor outlet for them.” -King Alfonso of Congo, Africa to the King of Portugal

triangular tradetriangular trade

Transatlantic trading network, where slaves & goods were carried between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the Americas

Transatlantic trading network, where slaves & goods were carried between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the Americas

phases of trading systemphases of trading system

1: Goods brought to Africa

2: Middle Passage

Voyage that brought captured Africans to the Americas

Awful conditions

3: Goods brought back to Europe

1: Goods brought to Africa

2: Middle Passage

Voyage that brought captured Africans to the Americas

Awful conditions

3: Goods brought back to Europe

slave shipslave ship

arrival in americaarrival in america

Slave auctions & markets-sold off

Field, Mining, Domestic Slaves

Abuse, Mistreatment

Lifelong

Slave auctions & markets-sold off

Field, Mining, Domestic Slaves

Abuse, Mistreatment

Lifelong

consequencesconsequences

In Africa:

lost generations

tore apart families, societies

guns- helped spread war/conflict throughout Africa

In Africa:

lost generations

tore apart families, societies

guns- helped spread war/conflict throughout Africa

consequencesconsequences

America

contributed to economic & cultural developments

diverse population

slavery’s legacy

on the African-American population

U.S.’s history

America

contributed to economic & cultural developments

diverse population

slavery’s legacy

on the African-American population

U.S.’s history