Aim: How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa?

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• Aim What were the horrors of the Atlantic slave
  trade?
• Do Now Read the poem. What is the author
  describing?
• Homework Write a letter to the leader of Spain
  or England and convince them to stop the slave
  trade.

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Cultural Interaction

• To meet their growing labor needs, Europeans
  enslaved millions of Africans in the Americas.
• Descendants of enslaved Africans represent a
  significant part of the Americans population
  today.

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Slave Trade

• Atlantic Slave Trade buying and selling of
  Africans into slavery. Between 1500 and 1600,
  nearly 300,000 Africans were transported to the
  Americas.
• Most slaves were sold by Spain. They worked
  throughout South/North America working on
  plantations and in mines.

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The Route
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Triangular Trade

• Europeans transported manufactured goods to the
  west coast of Africa. There, traders exchanged
  these goods for captured Africans.

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The Horrors of the Middle Passage
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The Voyage
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Middle Passage

• This is the voyage that brought captured Africans
  to the West Indies and later to North/South
  America.
• Cruelty characterized this journey. The Africans
  were packed into ships with beatings.
• They suffered horrible disease and abuse.
• Many committed suicide by throwing themselves
  overboard.

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Activity

• Have students all stand in a small space in the
  middle of the room. They must be as close
  together as possible.
• How did you feel?
• What did you see?
• Imagine being like this for 3 months traveling
  across the Atlantic.