The Middle Passage

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The Middle Passage

• We will explain reasons for the development of
  the plantation system, the transatlantic slave
  trade, and the spread of slavery in a graph and
  word cloud.

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Africa
Was a land of riches, vast resources, warring
tribes, hundreds of different cultures,
languages, and a rich history.
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Past Kingdoms and Cities of Trade
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Africans ruled prominent civilizations for
hundreds of yearsin Egypt, Morroco, Libya, the
SudanThey practiced Islam, animism, forms of
polytheism.
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Africans controlled the trade from the Atlantic
to the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean
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West African villages were full of people who
lived along the rivers and grasslands that
supported some of the richest land on the planet.
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It was a land full of festivals, art, music, and
celebrations.
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Slavery in Africa

• Africans had been traded as slaves for centuries
• Across the Sahara as part of the Muslim-led North
  African coast trade
• Traditionally in African society as victims in
  war, victims in debt,

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• Slavery was as old as humanity itself when
  Africans on the West Coast offered their slaves
  in exchange for payment to the Dutch and
  Portuguese. The Portuguese capitalizing on the
  opportunity for workers on plantations in Brazil,
  took the lead in exporting vast quantities of the
  African peoples to South America.

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The TransAtlantic Slave Trade Had Begun
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• We will explain reasons for the development of
  the plantation system, the transatlantic slave
  trade, and the spread of slavery in a word cloud,
  graph, and silent conversation.

• Your job is to write down descriptive words (on
  next left page)that describe what you
• See
• Hear
• Feel
• Think

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  Kunta heard the sharp crack of a twig,
followed quickly by the squawk of a parrot
overhead. It was probably his dog returning,
he thought in the back of his mind. But no grown
dog ever cracked a twig, he flashed, whirling in
the same instant. In a blur, rushing at him he
saw a white face, a club upraised heard heavy
footfalls behind him. Toubob! His foot lashed up
and caught the man in the belly just as something
hard and heavy grazed the back of Kuntas head
and landed like a tree trunk on his shoulder.
Sagging under the pain, Kunta spunan pounded
with his fists on the faces of two black men who
were lunging at him with a big sack, and at
another.swinging a short, thick club, which
missed him this time as he sprang asidethen the
blacks club smashed into Kunta once again,
staggering him to his kneesHis head ready to
explode, his body reeling, raging at his own
weakness, Kunta reared up and roared, flailing
blindly at the air, everything blurred with tears
and blood and sweat. He was fighting for more
than his life now. The toubobs heavy club
crashed against his temple. And all went black
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Now graph the data below under where you wrote
your words
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• We will explain reasons for the development of
  the plantation system, the transatlantic slave
  trade, and the spread of slavery in a graph and
  word cloud.

• To closelets use your word bank to create a
  class word cloud in tribute to the 6 million
  people who traveled the Middle Passage.