triangular trade and middle passage 17 th & 18 th centuries
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Triangular Trade and Middle Passage
17th & 18th Centuries
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Triangular Trade
• Trade between the Americas, Europe and Africa
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Triangular Trade
• American Colonies—Needed slaves to produce crops
• European Countries (England)—Wanted crops grown in the Americas (cotton, tobacco) that didn’t grow well in Europe
• Iron, to make weapons, and rum were sent to Africa
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In other words….
• Africa supplied the workers (slaves)
• America used the workers (slaves) to supply the resources
• Europe used the resources to produce goodsPicture this
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Middle Passage• The path by which slaves were transported
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The Voyage• About 12 million Africans were brought
to the Americas as slaves
• About 1 million of these Africans were brought to British Colonies
• 1 in 4 Africans died during the voyage from Africa to the Americas
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Close quarters on the ship caused disease to spread rapidly among some Africans
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Brutality