Slavery and Triangle Trade

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Slavery and Triangle Trade
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Triangle Trade
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European Background

• Portuguese started African slave trade in 1441
• First Africans in Hispanola in 1505
• 1450-1850 12 million Africans sent to Americas

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Why Africans?

• Native Americans dying off Some degree of disease
  resistance
• No muskets and gunpowder
• Africans participated in trade by enslaving
  others, selling debtors and criminals, and
  kidnapping
• Skilled workers
• Knew how to extract precious ore from mines
• Familiar with soils and crops
• Not familiar with the landmaking escape less
  likely

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Portuguese Slave Trade

• The Portuguese population was too small to
  provide a large number of colonists.
• The sugar plantations required a large labor
  force.
• Slaves filled this demand.

Europeans and Africans Meet to Trade
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Slave Trade and Sugar

• Portuguese crop growers extended the use of slave
  labor to South America.
• Because of this, Brazil would eventually become
  the wealthiest of the sugar-producing lands in
  the western hemisphere.

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European Slave Trade
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Plantations

• The first was established by the Spanish on
  Hispaniola in 1516.
• Originally the predominant crop was sugar. In
  addition to sugar, plantations produced crops
  like tobacco, indigo, and cotton.
• In the 1530s Portuguese began organizing
  plantations in Brazil, and Brazil became the
  worlds leading supplier of sugar.

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Plantations

• Labor intensive HARD WORK
• Relied almost exclusively on large amounts of
  slave labor supervised by small numbers of
  European or Euro-American managers.

Brazilian sugar mill in the 1830s
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Justification- Why?

• Slavery made development of the New World
  profitable

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Slavery Expands

• In 1518, the first shipment of slaves went
  directly from West Africa to the Caribbean where
  the slaves worked on sugar plantations.
• By the 1520s, the Spanish had introduced slaves
  to Mexico, Peru, and Central America where they
  worked as farmers and miners.
• By the early 17th century, the British had
  introduced slaves to North America.

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Impact of Slave Trade on the Americas

• Diverse Culture- Cultural Diffusion- Africans
  brought part of their culture (like music food,
  traditions, Language) to the Americas.
• Made Latin American colonies (Brazil) wealthy

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Exportation

• Trip called the Middle Passage
• 5000 miles, 3 wks. to 3 mos.
• 20-25 died
• Strip Africans self respect and self identity

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The Middle Passage
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The Middle Passage
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Slave Master Brands
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Inspection and Sale