SLAVERY

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SLAVERY
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The Atlantic Slave Trade

• The Atlantic slave trade was started in the 1500s
  to fill the need for labor in Spains American
  empire.
• Europeans relied on European traders and African
  tribes to seize captives in the interior and
  bring them to coastal trade posts and fortresses.
  

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African Views on Slavery Differed

• At the same time, new African states arose whose
  way of life depended on the slave trade.
• The rulers of these new states waged war against
  other Africans in order to gain control of the
  slave trade in their region.
• Yet, in many African tribes slavery was an
  acceptable answer to poverty.
• Slaves were frequently made a part of the family.
  There was a slave in Africa that served a tribal
  leader.

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Slave Trade
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Supply and Demand demand was high.

• Each year, traders shipped tens of thousands of
  enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to work on
  tobacco and sugar plantations in the Americas.
• The slave trade intensified as the demand for
  slaves increased in the Americas and the demand
  for luxury goods increased in Africa.

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Destinations of Enslaved Africans, 15001870
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Original Triangle Trade Route
Slaves, Sugar Rum
Rum
Sugar
Slaves
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Triangular Trade Grows
The Atlantic slave trade formed one part of a
three-legged trade network know as the triangular
trade.
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History of Slave Trade
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Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade

• By the 1800s, an estimated 11 million enslaved
  Africans had reached the Americas. Another 2
  million probably died during the Middle Passage
  (define).
• In West Africa, the loss of countless numbers of
  young women and men resulted in some small
  states disappearing forever.

Slave Collar So a runaway could be heard!
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A Different Kind of SlaveryBUT

• "Anyone can say that slavery has existed
  forever," says Frans Fontaine, "even the Greeks
  and Romans had slaves.
• But this kind of slavery was different - it was
  fixed to race. You became a slave because you
  were black.

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• A Different Kind of SlaveryBUT
• But slavery didn't fit in with Christian ideals
  so there was a very good solution for this
  problem black people, Europeans and Americans
  determined, they were not really humans.
• And that is the most cruel part of this form of
  slavery. Blacks were not people, they said,could
  therefore be enslaved.

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Slave Ship Journal Tasks

• Assume slave square position.
• The Overseer is watching!
• Watch a segment from Roots, Vol. 1 -The
  Capture 20-25 minutes
• Answer the questions that follow Interpreting
  Primary Sources 2 in your journal.
• Read the biographies of Olaudah Equiano.
• Write a journal entry as if you are a sailor on a
  slave ship who would secretly like to interview
  Equiano. List five questions you would ask him
  and explain why.