From Slavery Through Colonialism

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Transatlantic Slave Trade
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Slave Trade Began

• In 15th Century Portugal explored West Coast of
  Africa purchased slaves.
• By 1500 10 of Population of Lisbon were African
  slaves.
• After 1492, other European nations joined in
  slave trade.

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Middle Passage

• Historian Philip Curtin est. 9,566,000 Africans
  brought to Western Hemisphere
• no one knows how many died being captured
  transported--60 million?

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Where were the slaves brought to?
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In Caribbean

• Sugar Plantations
• Europes craving for sugar was the 1 reason
  for the transatlantic slave trade
• British Jamaica imported 748,000 gt half of them
  died from the harsh life on sugar plantations

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The United States

• Tobacco
• rice
• Indigo
• Cotton (after 1800)
• in North --dock workers

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Virginia

• 1st Africans brought to Virginia in 1619
• Sold as indentured servants
• Gradual institutionalization of slavery in 17th
  century
• By 1760 20 of colonial population were slaves.

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South Carolina

• Largest percentage of slaves in U.S.
• Charleston main port between colonies Caribbean
• work Rice Plantations
• Rice exported to Caribbean to feed slaves

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Slave revolts in colonies

• 250 recorded incidents of slave rebellions in the
  Americas
• New York slave revolt of 1712
• Stono Rebellion in South Carolina, 1739

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Olaudah Equiano

• His biography started the opposition to slavery
  in the colonies 1745-1797

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How Was Slavery in Americas Unique

• 1st Africans were indentured servantsgt
  institution of slavery evolved during 17th
  century
• Slavery by Race
• Hereditarygt1 slave parent led to slavery for the
  child
• Slaves property with no rights